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...Barber, like most Seinfeld episodes, expanded from a writer's real-life experience. Andy Robin, 24, a former Saturday Night Live writer who joined the Seinfeld staff this season, remembered the anxiety he felt about switching barbers, from the old man who had cut his hair for years to a younger barber in the same shop. "It was like breaking up with your lover," he says. He proposed an episode in which Jerry goes through similar angst after a bad haircut...
...smokers can shop at Leavitt & Peirce, too. The store carries barber supplies, fancy chess sets and small model cars...
...though, the barber is waiting for Mr. Pondiscio...
Invoking privilege of any sort goes against the picture of the down-home Arkansan whose natural populist tendencies served him well in the campaign. His Bubba barber of 17 years, his off-the-rack suits, the Governor's mansion with its tattered volleyball net -- these have given way to a Belgian-born hair stylist, Armani jackets and a private jogging track...
...more like Harry Truman than Oprah Winfrey on wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing a 40% strategy, he might consider spending more time in Arkansas than in L.A. And in a barber chair, not a traffic-stopping runway salon...