Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spite of successfully passing all theoretical exams, I had not talent for the mechanical side of engineering. All my creative urges were stifled while I pursued my rather arid studies. At that time the social status of a photographer was not much higher than the status of a barber or waiter. My decision to change professions made my mother very unhappy. My professor of mathematics told me; "Halsman, in a few months you can have your engineering degree and you want to become photographer!" But I had made up my mind I bought myself a photoflood lamp, a used enlarger...
...stuck, stay. The plot-a nicely engineered collision of characters, all of whom are somehow related-is framed around a wound-up musician named Eric Wood (Richard Baskin) and his flailing efforts to finish a record album. Wood's music bears all the other characters along. Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), who wrote some of the tunes that Wood records, is an itinerant composer called back to L.A. by his agent (Viveca Lindfors) at the request of his businessman father (Denver Pyle), who has not seen his son in three years. Carroll puts up in a rented house supplied...
...dramatic reversals." Perhaps, he suggested, it should be called Othello. Today Othello is a national pastime played by some 25 million Japanese-and a full-blown fad replete with towels, tie clasps, and key chains, all emblazoned with the distinctive Othello emblem. Spearheaded by Fumio Fujita, 27, a barber from outside Tokyo and the game's reigning champion, Othello has invaded England...
...played a match on closed-circuit television against Tony Miles, 20, the first British chess grand master, winning two games out of three. In Pasadena, Calif., students at Caltech programmed a computer, named lago, to play against Fujita, who easily beat the machine. In Washington, B.C., however, the Japanese barber took a beating at the hands of Mark Weinberg, 30, a Government lawyer. "I took him apart," boasts Weinberg, adding: "I'm a lifelong chess player. When I saw this game, I said, 'Wow, this is great!' It is sort of addictive...
Nicholas Lombardi, of the 78-year-old La Flamme barber shop, said yesterday that because of the competition with salons, "We're just barely making ends meet...