Word: parlorized
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...Marketing. In walked a gray-uniformed functionary who matter-of-factly began punching the tickets of the equally nonchalant students. The scene was purest Marx brothers, and last week it began playing daily on the Long Island Railroad's Port Jefferson line. The classroom is a converted parlor car, and the students are commuters in one of two new programs to let businessmen take courses as they ride to and from New York City...
...know only too well that the look was anything but "natural." To maintain the Afro's cotton-candy structure themselves, they had to spend long hours in front of their mirrors using special combs and applying conditioners and sprays. For the women having it styled in a beauty parlor, the Afro was more costly than other styles. The continuous combing required to keep an Afro fluffy also caused hair to become more brittle and to break along the hairline and on the crown. Finally, the massive look of the Afro was not flattering to all faces and head shapes...
...washed out his mouth with soap for using a "bad word." Nevertheless, young Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think," and his Grandmother Skinner "made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove." To deter him from a life of crime, Skinner's father conducted him through the county jail and on a summer vacation took him to a lecture with colored slides that depicted life in Sing Sing...
...quiet last week in the woods, but until my kids are out of diapers, this is more fun." For older kids, Campland is a mixed bag. Young Jeff Andreoli complains that he cannot play baseball or football: "There's no grass here." Karen Folts, 13, thinks the pool parlor is right on: "I like this place because there's a bunch of cool guys around. When my parents go camping in the wilderness, I stay home. It's boring...
...austere logic that it is better to spare them as much final pain as possible: "Nothing disturbed Commandant Klein as much as the dread that they might die screaming." It is also Klein's fancy to have Adam act like a pet dog, making him crawl around his parlor on all fours and compete with his teeth for bones tossed to Klein...