Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Barber of Seville...
...Barber today submitted his long-awaited report on Harvard investments in Fixyou, Inc. "We can do more from the inside" he told Mr. Spock, a conclusion based on a two year investigation...
...Barber, in his report, points out that the heroin Traffic--although large in relation to the total supply of hard drugs on the East Coast--amounts to less than 10 per cent of Fixyou, Inc.'s total business. "It is a highly-diversified company," he writes, "with interests in movie theaters, helicopter manufacture, watch bands and massage parlor franchises. It is, therefore, unfair to assume that the Harvard capital is going to help finance the drug traffic rather than, let us say, helicopters...
More important to Barber's conclusions is the fact that Fixyou, Inc. securities have a strong market and that "the sale by Harvard would have no effect whatsoever, since our offer would be immediately greeted with exultation bordering on madness in the financial community. The shares would be bought and Fixyou, Inc, would be unharmed." As a result, Barber, explains, "Harvard would loss all its influence over the company. So the only result of this well-intentioned act would be, in fact, to strengthen the traffic in hard drugs. And this is something no Harvard man or Radcliffe mother wants...
...clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...