Word: haircut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Callahan (210 Ibs.) and Reporter-Researcher Jamie Murphy were assigned to the Holmes-Cooney confrontation. Callahan set up camp in Palm Springs, Calif., to watch Cooney's final prefight training. One night Cooney looked over at the shaggy-haired Callahan and offered to administer an on-the-spot haircut. Says Callahan: "I figured I'd go along with the joke, so I told him to take a little off the sides and the top. He did just that." Callahan is not so sure Cooney can cut Larry Holmes down to size. "We don't know what...
Dozier was then taken to the U.S. military hospital at Vicenza, where he was declared in good health. With a six-week growth of beard and shaggy, tousled hair, the normally crew-cut general made several special requests to hospital personnel. The first: a haircut. The second: a cheeseburger, French fries and a Coke. He got both wishes, but not before he was tearfully reunited with his wife and daughter, who had by then flown in to meet him. Declared Judith Dozier: "We want to say thanks to all the people in the world for their love and their prayers...
...element of suburbanite garage sale-flea market economic chic in the new bartering boom. Many traders admit to a strong pride in managing their lives with little money. Says Betty Cordell, 39, owner of a Barter Systems franchise in Atlanta: "I would not pay cash for a haircut, for cosmetics or dry cleaning, dental services, medical services or other costs of everyday living...
...spinoffs, the talking cure appears to have trivialized the majesty of the unconscious. People once said that they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning that they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies. Now, people "go for" psychotherapy as they would go for a haircut, a walk in the park or Chinese food. The mind and soul are felt to be more casually accessible than they once were. In addition, the acquisition of self-awareness should not be too laborious, time-consuming or unpleasant...
...credibility problem of Reaganomics is based, in part, on its origins. In a sense, it was born one evening in December 1974, in the Two Continents restaurant in Washington, D.C. Three men were sipping drinks: Arthur Laffer, a young economist with an early-Beatles haircut who was considered a maverick by many of his colleagues; Jude Wanniski, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal; and Richard Cheney, a White House aide under President Ford...