Word: salon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asymmetry of the available insults reinforces the oft-noted dilemma of women in public life: how to be business-like without inviting perceptions like "ball-buster" or bitch. O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark had to be remanded to the make-over salon where she was recoiffed and taught to make tender references to her offspring in public. Hillary Clinton, perhaps more than any woman in public life, has been subject to relentless review by the gender police. Even when she stood steadfastly by her man during the Gennifer Flowers incident, she was savaged for doing so with insufficient humility and possibly...
...major TV networks and national press turned up last week to witness his triumphant return. After 10 months in a minimum-security prison -- and away from his computers -- he looks relatively healthy and relaxed. He's now employed as a computer technician at ECHO, a New York-based online salon. It hardly ever crashes...
...friend in Paris, he was confronted "at every step" with "ready-made paintings which would make the fame and fortune of 20 generations of painters." And in a sense he was right. From Delacroix on, Oriental exoticism would bulk ever larger in the offerings of the Paris salon: slave markets, dim fretted courtyards, hawk-nosed Arabs and their Barbary mounts, recumbent houris...
...retirement and has been, in effect, on welfare ever since. He knows he is being subsidized by the 12.4% payroll tax being paid by employers and their younger and lower-paid workers, like his granddaughter Amanda Fargo, 21, who earns $5 an hour as a receptionist in a beauty salon. Savage approves of taxpayer subsidies for the elderly poor, but adds, "It's unconscionable . . . to take money away from these kids and give it to well-off people...
...might be running from her parents, or she might just be running from herself. She won't really say which, referring in broad strokes to a middle- class background, private schools, piano and trumpet lessons. At 13 she modeled for a local hair salon. "I had such beautiful long blond hair," she says. Now her hair is cut short and tinged with purple dye. She wears a small silver ring in her nose, combat boots and a white T shirt on which she has written with a marker a message to the tourists she panhandles: I'd rather hear...