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...flirting with a client, but her desire is deterred by her need to care for her aged and dotty sister. You could perhaps characterize this as a Shop of Fools. You might also think of Caramel as another version of one of those agreeable, insignificant little comedies like Barbershop in which a group of amiable people yak and yuk their way toward provisional solutions to their petty, all-too-human problems...
Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. knows the feeling of talking politics in a black barbershop. “People don’t say ‘this is left-wing,’ or ‘this is right-wing,’ they just say whatever comes to them,” he said...
Gates, who is the director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, said he wanted to channel this barbershop atmosphere in “The Root,” an online magazine he launched Monday...
...once we see the damage of a soul driven mad by a love lost and defiled. There will be blood, plenty of it, cascading, spurting, spuming from the throats of the men unlucky enough to sit in Sweeney's barber chair. And there will be food, for the demon barbershop is just above Mrs. Lovett's pie store. The corpses are filleted, cooked and served to unsuspecting customers. Cannibal canapes, if you will...
...just as the scuttlebutt at the Imperial is a window into Nicaragua's corridors of power, my local barbershop is the best place to take the pulse of the street. Here, news rolls easily off the tongues of those who know what they're talking about, and those who don't. Sometimes, the barbershop itself becomes part of the news: When legendary newspaper publisher and opposition leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro was gunned down by unknown shooters in January 1978, the leading suspect - one of Larios' clients - told the police he had been getting a haircut at the Imperial Barbershop...