Word: hairbrush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...splay her fingers under the hand sanitizer. Next she picks up her DentiGuard toothbrush, which checks for signs of gum disease and measures her bone density while it brushes her teeth. During the course of her morning routine, a total of 85 microscopic sensors, in everything from her hairbrush to the medicine cabinet, will keep tabs on her health. Most days she doesn't even notice their presence...
...Shower shoes. Shampoo. Hairbrush or six-inch black comb. Am I going to have to ask them to shave my head? Elvis didn't, but then again he wasn't exactly volunteering either. I am assured by almost everyone that all the volunteering - the optional stuff - will cease with the first parting of my drill sergeant's lips...
...herself without money and fame, moves back home and takes up with an auto mechanic: "It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with...She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told `There you go.'" In "Real Estate," a woman named Ruth becomes so dissatisfied with her life that she finds metaphysical consolation only in firing guns. This story contain two plots, the other involving a man who loses his job and becomes an armed robber, only to cross paths...
...Madanian's estimation, the store's single best-selling item is the Mason and Pearson hairbrush. It's more expensive than the average CVS plastic model, but "it lasts for twenty years," Madanian says, indicating the finely-crafted brush in a box on the pharmacy counter. "Definitely a quality item," she adds...
...Alcee Hastings when Malone testified to having performed a tensile-strength test that was not only beyond his expertise but was also carried out by another member of the lab. In the MacDonald case, Malone, who specialized in hair and fiber evidence, had asserted that filaments found in a hairbrush at the murder scene came not from a blond wig worn by an intruder, as MacDonald claimed, but more likely from a doll owned by one of the murdered little girls...