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Death suffers from an overload of sunstruck prose: "Her round face was a moon watching over the vast territorial imperatives of her body." Even so, Bradbury remains a conjurer, and whenever his plot or prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they...
...trouble, said Policeman Bruce Barber, was that the perpetrator was only 2 ft. 6 in. tall and so "didn't attract any attention" when she sidled up to the Brinks guard's money bag. While the guard was distracted signing receipts in a cafeteria at Los Angeles International Airport, the tiny girl reached into the bag and pulled out a bundle of cash totaling $8,300. She then toddled back to her nearby parents and handed it to her father. An alert cashier who ! happened to see the exchange rushed over to George Arias, 36, and his wife Joanna...
...founded the cosmetics distributor in 1963, became a multimillionaire after selling stock to the public in 1968. In recent years, though, she has wanted to return the firm to family ownership. "When a company is publicly held, you live in a fishbowl," said Monty Barber, a Mary Kay spokesman...
...Avenue at El Pablon Chino restaurant, the Chinese waiter serves fried Dominican sausage and chop suey; he speaks Spanish, but no English. Along one refurbished commercial block in Flushing, Asia is scrunched together: Korean beauty salon, Chinese hardware store, Pakistani-Indian spice and grocery store, Chinese wristwatch shop, Korean barber...
...heart of Brooklyn's black area in a quarter they call La Saline, after the Port au Prince neighborhood from which many came. Hand-lettered French signs are pasted on walls and hung uncertainly from storefronts. Creole patois burbles everywhere. One hot afternoon on Nostrand Avenue recently, the Impeccable barber shop was crowded. Men had gathered under the fans for companionship, a bit of gossip, not haircuts. "We Haitians love to get together," says the owner of a neighborhood restaurant. "We talk about Haiti, about Papa Doc. New York is a tough city, very tough. But here you have freedom...