Word: haircut
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...with the tale of John Edwards and the $400 haircut. On July 16, Edwards embarked on a three-day, 12-city tour to highlight the persistence of poverty in the U.S. Asked why he thought poverty was a winning issue, Edwards gave an unusual response for a presidential candidate: "I don't know that it is. This is not a political strategy. It's a huge moral issue facing America...
...talked his way into a stand-up gig at a comedy club in Pasadena, Calif. "My thing was the 50-year-old mouth on the 10-year-old body," LaBeouf says. He took to the stage in overalls, with a bowl haircut, and "the first words out of my mouth would be 'Listen, assholes,'" he says. "Sometimes I would bomb. I'd talk about personal stuff and instead of laughing, people would look at me like, 'Oh, man, I'm so sorry.'" The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent...
...kind of unusual,” says his wife Katherine N. Clapp ’82. Her first memories of Tranfaglia include a characteristic Marine Corps haircut acquired during a summer spent in boot camp “just for an experience,” and another summer souvenir—a single sunburned side picked up during a cross-country bike trip and debuted the following fall...
...sure I want to write a column about his $400 haircuts either. I doubt Edwards had any idea how much those trims cost. Presidential candidates don't think about those sorts of things. They're scheduled for the barber; they go; someone pays. Sooner or later, the public will have to make a decision about whether Edwards--with his haircuts, 29,000-sq.-ft. house and lucrative hedge-fund employment--walks the populist walk that he talks. For now, though, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say, furthermore, that it's a very good sign that...
...started from snappin’. From snappin’ with my friends. That’s how I started, I used to just always be rhyming. Joking around with my friends about their clothes or their sneakers or their needing a haircut. I just always loved music though...from listening to what my moms and pops was playing, or just hearing it on the radio, whatever, I just knew I loved music...