Word: haircuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, Vice President Nixon's trip through South America [TIME, May 26] was not all sweetness and light. However, the political climate was a little more agreeable in Ecuador. Here in Quito he took time out to enter a humble barbershop for a haircut. The barber has made use of his moment of fame [see cut). He stands in the doorway under his new sign. Nixon's name is flanked by Ecuadorian and U.S. flags...
...postcards, saved the church $10. In San Francisco the inscrutable Chinese lined up at post office windows on Clay Street-"China Station"-there started an inscrutable run on 3? stamps that would, on fateful Aug. 1, become as rare as the 5? phone call, the 10? hamburger, the 50? haircut and, for that matter, the fine 5? cigar...
...incredible ineptitude displayed by painters who clothe their Bible-era subjects in contemporary Italian Renaissance costumes? Are critics as charitable to painters of the 19505 who produced a crucifixion scene with Roman soldiers in U.S. paratrooper garb and with either Mary in a sack dress with a poodle haircut...
...woman is a fearsome fact that can make or break a firm. But the beauty business has turned it to advantage by bringing out new products in the twinkling of an eye. The home permanents (led by Toni) threatened to empty the beauty shops. The short, or poodle, haircut filled them up-and home-permanent sales slumped 29% last year. Hair coloring, hardly respectable a few years ago, has grown into a $35 million do-it-yourself business and a $200 million beauty parlor market; three women in ten now tint, rinse or bleach their hair...
...Muggeridge, "viewers would either have switched on to another channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in evidence on British TV. Most startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple...