Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swing into an all-night clip joint and hand a drunken-looking barber five dollars and your bottle of Jack Daniel...
...film's most powerful scenes, Lanzmann visits Israeli Jew and former Czech Abraham Bomba in Tel Aviv. With some coaxing from the director, Bomba recounts the story of his years at Treblinka. A professional barber, Bomba and several of his colleagues were chosen for the camp's special detail, spared the gas chamber but forced instead to prepare its victims, by shaving their heads. Day after day, he remembers, he and several others cut the hair of thousands of women, moments before their extermination, unaware of their fate...
Moving from his feet to his head, O'Neill then stops next door at 2384 Mass Ave. for a quick trim by barber Frank Manelli. "He waits for his turn just like anybody else," says Manelli, who was sixteen when O'Neill first ran for congress...
According to associates, Manelli is the only barber O'Neill will use. Michael Ralph, who is in charge of O'Neill's Boston office, recalls the time O'Neill was returning from Cape Cod to do a TV show in Boston. Already an hour behind schedule because of traffic, O'Neill called the office and said, "I'm going to Frank's for a haircut--I'll be a little late...
Death suffers from an overload of sunstruck prose: "Her round face was a moon watching over the vast territorial imperatives of her body." Even so, Bradbury remains a conjurer, and whenever his plot or prose flags, he brings on a new character: the worst barber in the world; "a circus of one" who moves his feast of dogs, cats, geese and parakeets from a roof in the summer to a basement in the winter, never speaking to people, only singing to them; a gape-mouthed alcoholic who sleeps in empty tenement bathtubs. These people are exaggerations, of course, but they...