Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most people, I'm a little insecure when it comes to haircuts. Back in my Home Town, it's easy. There's only one final destination for all the unwanted curls and locks in the neighborhood--the Home Town barber shop. "We know hair like Trump knows money," reads the sign on the awning...
...hamburger haircut does sound rather unpleasant. But advice from a hairstylist sounds downright dangerous for a Home Towner like myself. Barbers I've met always talk weather and sports; they don't proffer advise. We Home Towners take our advice from the Home Town tarot readers...
...easy in Cambridge. Who will fill in for the Home Town barbers? Suave stylists or cut-rate cutters? Chatty barbers or antiseptic hair-removal experts...
...tempting. Two coupons depict neat-looking couples with neat-looking haircuts and ambiguous expressions on their faces. The rebate is prominently displayed: "$6 off, cut and style." There's no price listed, but it must be an expensive procedure if they can reduce it $6 for me. Back at home, that would make...
...read further down one of the advertisements. It seems I can use the discount at any of the store's locations--all 12 branches. What would they say back home if they knew I had patronized a branch for a haircut? Branches are for trees and for banks, they're likely to explain...