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...generally cliché-ridden and, often unintentionally laughable, lyrics supplied by Craig Carnelia. At one point, I swear I heard Kelli O’Hara’s Susan sing something that sounded like, “A couple of more breaks and he’ll be home / Combing his hair with my comb...
...know how to act upon. The accompanying poem, “Nature Abhors a Vacancy” by Ogden Nash, only deepens the sense of confusion: “You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx, / Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks, / From river to river you comb the town / For a place to lay your family down...
...Japanese are now shopping at second-hand stores; residents in upper-class districts comb through their neighbors' trash for used furniture. Potential entrepreneurs, the Akio Moritas of the future, are doomed to remain dreamers: the banking system is so swamped with the remembrance of debts past it doesn't have the money - or will - to help new businesses get off the drawing board. For the first time since the end of WW II, Japan is facing the concept of personal and corporate obsolescence. "We hope this is the bottom, but who really knows?" asks Masayuki Watanabe, a 48-year...
MODERATE $800 HITACHI 32UX01S If you load a TV with bells and whistles, better make sure the picture is perfect too. The 32-in. UltraVision has a digital three-line comb filter: don't worry about what it does; just enjoy the rich colors and razor-sharp lines. Plus, the bells and whistles: S-Video and component-video inputs, dual-tuner picture-in-picture and two cable-TV jacks. www.hitachi.com...
...dangerous can an Afro comb and a plastic bottle of hot sauce be? When Officer Louis Pepe came by cell No. 6 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1, 2000, he was distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened comb was plunged like a bayonet through his eye and 2 1/2 in. into his brain. The man in the cell, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, then allegedly took the keys from the paralyzed Pepe and began to wander down the hall. Guards stopped Salim, and he didn't get away...