Word: barbering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Only if business owners like my barber succeed will normality return to Gaza. Mohammed Telbani owns the largest factory in Gaza, making cookies and ice cream. But he can't get his raw materials and packaging through the Israeli embargo, and he can't send his finished products to the West Bank, where distributors have started buying cookies from Lebanon instead. "I've worked on creating that market for 30 years, and now it's gone," Telbani said. Gaza's beaches may be packed and its streets safe, but its factories are shut, and its stores have almost no customers...
...Palestinian society--alcohol disappeared from public view here long ago. But secular women who walk the streets of Gaza City without head scarves or veils say they were more likely to be harassed by criminals in the old Gaza than by religious conservatives today. Rumors that Hamas is ordering barbers not to shave beards are just that. I got mine shaved off by Hossein Hussuna, the barber of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, who told me that most of Haniya's eight sons are clean shaven...
MANY JAZZ EXPERTS CREDIT Bill Barber as creator of the modern jazz tuba. While playing "cool" Big Band music for Claude Thornhill, Barber impressed pioneering arranger Gil Evans with his mastery of the tuba, a background staple of early jazz bands that had become practically obsolete by the '30s. Convinced the instrument could be a tonal force in its own right, Evans included the tuba in his innovative arrangements for a nine-piece band--a body of work, featuring Barber, that became Miles Davis' legendary 1957 Birth of the Cool album...
...Universe, a 1960s love story set to Beatles songs, directed by The Lion King's Julie Taymor, with a cast including Evan Rachel Wood and Bono. And at year's end, just in time for Oscar season, comes Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp as the murderous barber in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller...
...sure I want to write a column about his $400 haircuts either. I doubt Edwards had any idea how much those trims cost. Presidential candidates don't think about those sorts of things. They're scheduled for the barber; they go; someone pays. Sooner or later, the public will have to make a decision about whether Edwards--with his haircuts, 29,000-sq.-ft. house and lucrative hedge-fund employment--walks the populist walk that he talks. For now, though, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say, furthermore, that it's a very good sign that...