Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs have the same clean, tight harmony that made C. S. N. & Y. the barbershop quartet of rock. The muted sound comes as a welcome respite from the roar of Led Zeppelin and the rest of the heavy metal kids. The 14 new lyrics (mostly written by Young) are generally serious. "People want words that say something with their music," says David Crosby. In Ambulance Blues, Neil Young reveals his disillusionment with today's political morals...
...other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor...
...Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance." He can also tuck his curls more easily into a football helmet: Star Split-End Morell George of Detroit's Central High School switched to braids after continuous combing bouts with his crushed Afro. Other blacks who still favor...
...greatest impact in Minnesota. "We sold out better than four times the usual number of copies," said Roy Carlson of The Gopher News Co., "and we're still trying to get more." The Minnesota issue of TIME was in such short supply, in fact, that one barbershop chained its copy to the wall...
...already had his testimony. Ervin moved swiftly to get Butterfield's information out. On Monday morning the full committee was told about Butterfield's story. A staff attorney was ordered to call Butterfield and tell him that he would be put on television that afternoon. Butterfield, reached in a barbershop, objected, still concerned about national security and worried about missing the opening of a symposium in the Soviet Union on American aerospace products. When Ervin learned of this, he told his staff attorney: "You tell him that I order him to come and testify, and if we have...