Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Special permits, unlike variances, do not require the applicant to demonstrate that a hardship is imposed by the zoning ordinances, says Lester W. Barber, the director of land use and zoning in the city's Community Development Department...
...Defense Fund] views the special permit as something that should almost never be given," Barber says. "That is not how the Planning Board...views...
Before this is over, we're all going to lose our shirts. You. Me. The cabbie talking about his mutual funds. The guy behind the deli counter reading Barron's. My "fully invested" barber. The suits on Wall Street. They can afford it. But oh, yes, they'll pay too. We're all floating on the same bubble...
...Rossini overtures figure so prominently in cartoon soundtracks. Despite the overture's comic nature, the beautiful oboe solo at the beginning of the piece was highly expressive. A flute and oboe duet later in the piece was equally haunting, and reminiscent of Rossini's famous Overture to The Barber of Seville...
...opening scene of the ART's latest production, a boorish captain implores his barber-orderly, Johann Christian Woyzeck, to slow down while shaving him: "Not so fast, one thing after another. You're making me quite dizzy." The orderly, a fidgety and anxious troll of a man, paces back and forth in the spotlight, etching out the confines of the circle. Surrounded by darkness, he nervously darts to his washbowl and glances out into the audience with a fearful and ominous visage. Woyzeck cannot and will not slow down...