Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sweeney Todd is one giant step for vegetarianism. Sweeney (Len Cariou), "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," slits the throats of stray clients and deposits their bodies with Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who has them ground up and served as meat pies in her pie shoppe. This musical is a black-comedy opera with helpings of ha'penny Brecht. Its underlying theme, and épater le bourgeois tone, is that man exists only to eat or be eaten by his fellows...
...must for any miniseries from I, Claudius to Washington: Behind Closed Doors. There are too many scenes of cooking, cleaning and dusting, not to mention list less chitchat in underlit rooms. ("Lord have mercy, I forgot to trim the President's other sideburn," says a White House barber in a typical example of Backstairs wit.) Only a sketchy attempt is made to re-create the nation's capital during the periods covered by the story. The one continuing dramatic conflict derives from the cardboard characterization of a mildly officious real-life housekeeper, Mrs. Jaffray (Cloris Leachman). Other wise...
...Maurice "Rocket" Richard of Montreal, Tom Bladon of the Flyers, and Islander Bryan Trottier. 3. Stefan Persson with 60 in 1977-78 for the Islanders. 4. Ken Dryden. 1971 Smythe winner, 1972 Calder winner. 5. Hardy Aastrom. 6. New York Islander Glenn "Chico" Resch stopped the Philadelphia Flyers' Bill Barber. 7. Pit Martin. 8. 1975: Islanders over Penguins: 1942: Maple Leafs over Red Wings. 9. Montreal Canadiens 1, Boston Bruins 0. 10. 39 years, since 1940. 11. 1974--Flyers beat Rangers in semis. four games to three. 12. True. Washington tied Montreal, 4-4, in a game at Capital Centre...
...Douglas Barber...
Congress is also expected to give Carter's fiscal 1980 budget some rough handling. Quips G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "It's going to be a Republican Congress-full of Democrats." House Speaker Tip O'Neill has been fretting that if Carter trims too much from the budget, there will not be enough for Congress to slash to impress the folks back home. Yet whatever Carter cuts will evoke outcries from some special interests that are sure to be used to good advantage by the man the President fears the most, Ted Kennedy. In talking...