Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he asked one saleswoman for shaving cream, she impertinently told him: "We don't have any. If you want a shave, go to a barber shop." His search for soap took him 65 miles away to Novorossisk, where a few bars had been spotted in stores two weeks before. By the time he arrived Novorossisk was out of soap but did have shampoo-for cars. After scouring shop shelves in both cities, all Dorofeyev could turn up for his trouble was a costly bottle of perfume named Luck and a child's toothbrush, which broke...
...Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crew cut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously shaves but rarely. Until he arrived at the university he was educated in mediocre public schools, the whole of life to him lies in doodling with mathematics, and his idea of kicks is playing the violin. He is too undersized for athletics, has a horror...
...that was that--scratch singles in the eighth and ninth amounted to nothing and Barber coasted to a complete-game, shutout victory in his first start of the year...
...hard to argue with his rinky-dink soft stuff, however: Barber has now thrown 19 2/3 innings, allowing no runs and just ten hits. That's a class act that might go over even in Florida...
...Curtin (L, 1-1) 8 4 0 6 4 5 Barber (W, 1-0) 9 0 0 5 1 5 E-Allard, Curtin...