Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene was a hip little hair salon off Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. A personable young man with Hollywood good looks and a funny foreign name was getting his wavy, dark-blond hair cut. The barber struck up a conversation. "So," she inquired, "what do you do?" He replied that he worked with the local symphony orchestra. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "What instrument do you play?" Actually, he said, he was the conductor -- had she ever attended a concert? "Of course not," she said, and went back to cutting his hair...
Most Americans probably only associate Giacchino Rossini with "The Lone Ranger" theme from his William Tell Overture, and possibly fewer Americans recognize him as the composer of the infamous Barber of Seville. And therefore it is highly unlikely that many would associate the Rossini of the dramatic and macabre opera to the composer of the humourous and light-hearted The Italian Girl in Algeirs. Much like Wagner's Lohengrin and Puccini's La Boheme, the works of this opera have become a part of our popular perception of the genre. But while the musical style may be familiar, anyone...
...Barber: Sleep's not so safe either. Just last month the New England Journal of Medicine reported that when you're dreaming, the sympathetic nervous system, which helps the body react to emergencies, is twice as active as it is when you're awake. Your heart beats faster, your blood pressure goes up, and your blood can get stickier, so it can clot and cause a heart attack. On the other hand, waking up isn't so great either. Heart attacks occur more often in the morning than at any other time...
...Barber: You see that crease in your earlobes? A kind of diagonal wrinkle? A University of Chicago physician did a study showing that such a crease may be associated with - you guessed it - an increased risk of heart disease...
...Barber: What's that? You say you get moderate exercise, eat a low-fat diet and don't smoke? Well, that's another story. Those things make more of a difference to your cardiovascular health than any of the things I was talking about. And besides, most of the studies I mentioned are considered suggestive but not definitive. They could even be wrong. Forget everything I said. Let's try combing some hair over from the side to hide that bald spot...