Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dudley T and bus stop. We passed out fliers and cajoled people to vote. Next we canvassed a few housing projects in the Roxbury area. including Academy Homes, an enormous and economically depressed project. It is a nine story building of concrete and broken glass with a barbershop and variety store for its all Black residents. We visited another ward before ending a day that had begun at 6:15 in the morning...
...more the plot is subordinated to poetry, the more Coming through Slaughter makes sense. In the middle of a brawl in the barbershop, Bolden, his chest bleeding, begins mumbling a monologue: "I'm dead...you're crazy, the painful ache... the rain into my head..." he moans...
...mother in the wartime chaos around Chonan, 50 miles south of the capital. An aunt left him in an orphanage while she searched for his mother. She did not find her. Huh Hyun Chul, 9, lost his four-year-old sister when she was left behind at a barbershop during the family's flight from the war. These are but a few among millions of such stories from the Korean conflict. Now, thanks to some remarkably imaginative television programming, these three have ended happily...
...embassy in Moscow. Their aim: to win permission to leave a country that, they said, persecuted members of their religious minority (estimated size: at least 150,000). The fugitives were given a single 12-ft.-by-20-ft. room in the embassy basement and later took over the barbershop next door. Last week, after nearly five years in their refuge, the Siberian Seven, as they have become known, finally moved a little closer to freedom when Soviet authorities allowed one of them, Lidiya Vashchenko, 32, to board an Austrian Airlines flight to Vienna...
Everything is as American as the bright red fire truck near the band shell and not far from the barbershop, sort of the way it was in Disney's home town of Marceline, Mo. When Disney conceived his California Disneyland, he strongly felt that before visitors got to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontier land, they should first pass through Main Street, which he described as "everyone's home town, the heartland of America." And so they will at Urayasu. Says Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada: "At this point, the Japanese are brimming with curiosity about America and the Americans...