Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Curry, 42, a San Mateo, Calif., bar owner, indulged his fantasy last June. "I was kinda nervous before my inning, sitting up in the stands practicing my home-run call," recalls Curry, who grew up listening to Red Barber. "The Yankees came up, and the first two slugged homers. I had lockjaw and just kinda mumbled something...
...faze Welliver, 42, a frozen-foods shipping clerk in Omaha. He is in ecstasy here on a stage at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, harmonizing with one of the finest quartets in the land, at the annual convention of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Welliver has paid $20 to "Sing with the Champs" -- an opportunity for rank-and-file barbershoppers to sing briefly onstage with a championship quartet -- and he is paired with SPEBSQSA's 1986 gold medalists, a foursome of Missourians called Rural Route 4. He is dressed...
...grand masters and $27 home-study tapes -- Theory of Harmony, How to Warm Up Your Voice. The camaraderie extends to the contest stage. The battle is to win, not to beat the other guy. " 'We' is the competition," notes a Chief of Staffer. No candy-shirted drunks around a barber pole at this convention. For the final rounds, the costuming is ingenious. Houston's Inns 'n Outts strut onstage painted up as the four gray visages of Mount Rushmore. A Virginia quartet appears as clowns. Florida's Sidekicks prance on as doctors and plumbers. But the twelve judges are looking...
...what about those poor bald souls for whom Rogaine is not recommended? Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair...
...memorize 20 new vocabulary words a week. The two are still "close in spirit," Oprah says, though they talk only once every couple of months. "We weren't a family with lots of hugs and touching," Oprah recalls. "Nobody ever said, 'I love you.' " Her father, still a barber and city councilman in Nashville, has turned down Oprah's offers to "retire him" (though she does support her mother financially). "The only thing he's ever asked me for was a ticket to the Tyson-Spinks fight." Oprah came through with...