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...reports that 80% of his young customers now ask for the long cut, compared with 10% five years ago. Says John A. Maloney, a Cambridge, Mass., barber who specializes in shearing Harvard students: "They come in and want it trimmed as long as possible. I use scissors and a comb. There's no place to use a clipper. There's no scalp to get close...
...Times of London appears to have gone through the U.S. press with a fine-toothed comb, with special emphasis on its great opposite number in New York, to find means of presenting the American action in Santo Domingo in the worst possible light...
Winnie, increasingly immobile (in the second act she is buried up to her neck) and denied the escape of death, is forced to assert her existence through Willie and her "things" a bag, a comb, a toothbrush, a revolver. The smallest objects become signs of life, and assume a life of their own. The parasol may burn up, the glasses may be smashed, but Winnie knows that they will mysteriously return, unharmed, to sustain her endless day, and she cries with appropriately endless irony, "That is what I find so wonderful, the way things...(voice breaks, head down)...things...
...Combing Wave. The letters offer no single exposition of Frost's theories of writing, but remarks scattered about the volume show something of his approach. He cuts off a good-humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into...
...caught them at the rate of a ton a minute. Pacific hake bring a low price because they are used to make fish meal, but the net has also caught ocean perch and other food fish. The bureau is looking forward to a time when fleets of supernets will comb the neglected mid-waters of the North Pacific, gulping shiploads of fish that are now almost untroubled by fishermen...