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Irritating. Endlessly irritating. The increasingly unintelligible, high-pitched whine of these wretched bugs cavorting in toilets and a jock strap is enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: MTV Flick Grows Old Quick | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...corner of the screen but also the comedy team of Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long. They may be best taken in small doses, but a black-and-white barbershop scene that opened a pregame show in Fox's first N.F.L. season and featured the ex-players reminiscing with a barber about the old days of football was as clever and as humorous as TV gets, much less TV sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: BRAINSTORM: WHAT IF TV SPORTS WERE FUN? | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...cutting hair. The next thing I know, I look up and all of a sudden there's smoke everywhere," said John Mitchell, a barber at Custom Barber-Shop on the opposite side of Brattle Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Firefighters Struggle To Control Electrical Fire in Crate & Barrel | 5/8/1996 | See Source »

Jerry, the popular Harvard Square barber known almost as well for his preaching as he is for his haircuts, may not be underground much longer...

Author: By Adam M. Kleinbaum, | Title: HSA Plans To Oust Jerry's | 2/16/1996 | See Source »

Though the location of Jerry's Underground may soon be occupied by another business, many doubt the barber's shoes will be filled so quickly...

Author: By Adam M. Kleinbaum, | Title: HSA Plans To Oust Jerry's | 2/16/1996 | See Source »

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