Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Check and Balance," says New York's ad miring Republican Congressman Barber Conable, suggesting further that this country has developed a sound understanding and appreciation of the counterforces needed within the Government to constrain careless or inexperienced power. "Arthur is a great politician," adds Conable. "He is a master of the pregnant pause. He knows when to clean his pipe. He can answer the most complicated questions with 'I doubt it,' and the world is thunderstruck with his wisdom. When he comes to testify before any committee, the whole committee shows up. He has the same effect...
...Illinois Supreme Court, which, after pondering his case for a year, has ruled unanimously that he did no wrong. But Harrod's victory may be hollow. Fearful of stirring up more trouble, the judge has not decided whether to resume sentencing shaggy-haired miscreants to terms in the barber's chair, even though he remains convinced that in many cases, prison cells or fines are too harsh a punishment. Says he: "I'm going to wait and see. I've been burned by this...
Sometimes. Alone. Between. Periods. Yet "ands" are cheap: "And Mr. Arland ask ing him why he hadn't seen him having a pint for some time. And the barber stopped cutting my hair and looked up at the ceiling." These repetitions may charm at first as a rendition of the maundering heard in Irish pubs; stretched out over a wad of pages, the trick grows thin. Even the little poems that conclude chapters seem limp: "And/ I loved/ Her." When Lennon and McCartney wrote something like that, they provided music...
...their daily schedules (making it difficult for terrorists to set traps for them) and are accompanied everywhere by bodyguards. (That did not help Schleyer. His three bodyguards were killed when he was captured.) Even those who are not likely to be targets of terror are affected. Observed a Dortmund barber: "They're going to hit again?somewhere. It's so terrible not to know where and when...
...secret: a short twelve-week season that welds its cast for brief, intense, festival-like engagements. This season began with Luciano Pavarotti in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore. Coming up are Jon Vickers in Britten's Peter Grimes and Frederica von Stade in The Barber of Seville. This November the Lyric will mount its first Die Meister singer. For opening night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct a new sauce for that classic spaghetti western, Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West...