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...incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay and some lovely dancing ensue. What everyone came to see was Nureyev, who (except for an all but transparent set of tights) kept himself unexpectedly unobtrusive until Act III, when he showed by leaps and bounds why everybody comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Shocks and Ceremonies | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...supermarket, then as a newspaper copy boy, and later as a service station attendant," recalls John Wayne Suggs, 18, once a typical long-haired unemployable. "But they'd take one look at me and say 'Get out.' " Without benefit of a barber, he finally found a career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Business Is Blooming | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...married not too long ago, Cahalan irritated his mother with hair a bit over his ears. Yesterday during the conversation, his mother called with some news. He was scheduled to arrive in Harrisburg at 2:30 p.m., and his mother had arranged a 3:20 p.m. appointment at the barber shop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olympics and Yale Were Dreams For 'Small and Skinny' Cahalan | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

Part of the change may be in the eye of the beholder-the nation, after two years, has simply got used to Nixon as President. But there is more to it than mere acclimatization. For one thing, the President acquired a new barber six months ago. This artist, Milton Pitts, 54, who calls himself "Washington's leading men's hair stylist," strives to give the presidential head "the natural sculptured look." He has gradually lowered Nixon's sideburns about half an inch and his neckline by an inch -not exactly an Abbie Hoffman do but slightly less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Making of the Newest Nixon | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...Scout brass have taken a pragmatic line. "The boy in the ghetto had no real basis for many of the things we talked about," says national Chief Scout Executive Alden Barber, "so we had to make the program acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Digging the Stoners | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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