Word: barbering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dave Winfield killed a seagull with a warmup throw in Toronto. The Ontario police charged him with animal cruelty, although the charge was later dropped. There’s something wonderful about being able to sit around with a bunch of guys in a Burger King or a barber shop and discuss, in sophisticated terms, the history of unfortunate bird deaths in the majors. It speaks to the incredible scope of baseball history...
Affectlessness is not a quality much prized in movie protagonists, but Billy Bob Thornton, that splendid actor, does it perfectly as Ed Crane, a taciturn small-town barber, circa 1949. Everyone cheats on him--his wife, his business partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious...
...haircut is from my favorite barber, a young Afghan man. He's from Jalalabad, a commercial urban center in eastern Afghanistan. More than 80% of its population has fled due to the continued bombing raids. One of the disadvantages of my profession is being forced to change barbers so often as we move from country to county. There is nothing more frustrating than a bad haircut...
...Tension is high in Peshawar as bombing raids inside Afghanistan continue. Anti-American sentiment permeates the streets and alleys. My barber whispered to me that he would prefer to come by my office to cut my hair during these next few months, or at least until things calm down a bit more. He did not want me to risk walking down the alley to his barbershop. I agreed, and expressed my concern for him and his family...
...Last night I attended a roundtable discussion chaired by a political leader from a western European country. Many people think they have the answer for the "new Afghanistan". I continue listening to my Afghan colleagues - and counting on my young Afghan barber...