Word: salon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Civilization aspires to femininity. History has made man's age-old tools of muscles and marauding nearly obsolete; it urges him to put down swords and pick up phones, to value salon charm over brute force, to face adversity through nurturing and networking instead of a quick body chop. What a lovely evolution: men are becoming women. Except in movies, of course -- especially summer movies, where the O.K. Corral never closes and the footfalls of dinosaurs named Arnold and Sly still shake the earth...
...wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing a 40% strategy, he might consider spending more time in Arkansas than in L.A. And in a barber chair, not a traffic-stopping runway salon...
This probing into the personal habits of a customer has become increasingly common at salons. In fact, Salon Gaia, located on Mt. Auburn Street, even has a stylist who doubles as a card reader to foretell the futures of interested customers...
Yvonne Bonaccorso and her sister, Dolores, established Salon Gaia more than three years ago. The salon is staffed by four stylists, including Elena Mukhaelyan who reads the future from regular playing cards in what is described as a Russian Gypsy style. Yvonne Bonaccorso says that the readings are remarkably accurate...
Customers wishing for a more Euro style frequent the hair salon Gino on Holyoke Street. Each customer is handed a gray smock and then treated to the hair essentials by the Gino's stylists...