Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routines have been seen before on American TV. Fortunately, they are unkillably hilarious even in repetition. Since the performers understandably need to catch their breath, film clips share equal billing with the live players' stage antics. When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent. So is the spoof on TV wrestling, in which the solo performer, Graham Chapman, is finger-jabbed and pretzel-twisted by an invisible opponent...
...that could bore through rock, thus opening vast untapped fields to exploration. "Little Howard" was only 18 when his father died, but he persuaded a Texas court to declare him to be of age. He bought out his relatives and took over the Hughes Tool Co. as sole owner...
...Japanese hairdresser who works at Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman and favors the cut because it bares the neck. "Japanese women are always covered up by the kimono, so that only the neck shows," he explains. "The Japanese think the neck is very sexy." Adds Stylist Eric Lintermans, owner of Linter-mans in Beverly Hills: "It lifts the face. The cut by the cheekbones can subtract years from a woman's face." Also, he notes, it can be styled in minutes with a blow dryer: "I think women are tired of having to fuss with their hair-of brushing...
There are many variations on the new wedge. Stylists at the Paul McGregor shops in New York and Los Angeles have shaped the back of the cut into three inverted pyramids. The Jon Peters salon in Beverly Hills has added to the cry with hue. Says Owner Allen Edwards: "For fun, we like to apply iridescent color to the bottom of the wedge -aura colors like purple, reds and blues...
...passed Weld Hall, a woman yelled "Bonjour!" from a fourth-story window. Several of the Belgians looked up appreciatively and returned the greeting. One Belgian student was then hit in the leg by a Frisbee. He asked "What is this thing?" as he skillfully threw it back to its owner...