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Meanwhile, FBI agents and state, city and Harvard police continued to comb Charlestown and South Boston in a massive hunt for a third suspect, who escaped...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Leahy Charged With Six Counts For Bank Heist | 3/3/1995 | See Source »

Remembering my very positive experience with Keanu and the deep friendship that began that day, I got excited, too. It was hard not to. Deans popped breath mints and administrators started to comb their hair. I called one of my faithful friends and asked her to bring a camera. In a flash my friend arrived, and we were ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRUSH WITH BARBRA | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

With his dark suits and wing tips, Kasich evokes Chamber of Commerce orthodoxy--or he would if he ever managed to run a comb through his bowl-cut hair, which makes him look like an unruly teenager. He also has a penchant for the goofy. One Budget Committee brainstorming session opened to the strains of Wooly Bully punctuated by a Nerf gunfight between Budget staff members and lobbyists. He will wave a toy hatchet at an interviewer one moment and say earnestly the next: ``I want you to believe this, too, that intellectually what we're talking about is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDGET, MEET THY MAKER | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...Unfinished Song. Through March 5. CharlesPlayhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. 426-6912.Four friends and/or past lovers of wanna-bemusical-theater writer Michael--who has succumbedto cancer--comb the contents of his New Yorkapartment and serenade his urn. The storyconcentrates on a pair of gay lovers who, becauseof the stubbornness of one and the cowardice ofthe other, never finished their song of love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: not at harvard | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Pitts was a purveyor of subtlety. He got Richard Nixon to forgo the dollop of "greasy kid stuff," giving him a more natural appearance. Jerry Ford was still trying to comb a few wispy strands of hair over his nearly bald pate when Milt got his clippers on him. He shortened the top and lengthened the sides, playing to nature's own honest impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What the Barber Knew | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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