Word: salon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats prepare to move into the power centers, Washington-area businesses are hoping for a trickle-down effect. "I just want to get my hands on Hillary's roots," gushes Robin Weir, Nancy Reagan's former hairdresser. To boost his chances, he sent his salon manager to California this week to have her hair done by Hillary Clinton's favorite stylist, Cristophe. Says Weir: "We want to get across to him that we know this town...
...sports a snowy pair of Air Jordans: "I like black people and their music because they're cool." When Suzuki dances, he can also toss his dreadlocks, a style in which rap-blitzed kids can invest seven hours and from $324 to $1,215 at a hair salon. So kakko-ii, or cool, is it to be black that a lively business is booming in tanning salons with names like "Neo-Blackers" and mail-order skin-darkeners like "African Special" ($315 a one-month supply...
Unfortunately, it did his art no good. Bellows went for the pedantic structure and managed to annul the immediate and visceral character of his best work. Hence the generally tedious commissioned portraits and the stilted "refinement" of his late salon pieces like Two Women, 1924. His labored attempts at old-masterly composition in the Baroque manner included a melodramatic Crucifixion modeled on El Greco and a hammy image of a heroine of World War I anti-Hun propaganda, Nurse Edith Cavell preparing to face a German firing squad. The irony was that Bellows, in trying to turn himself into...
...visitor from abroad running the Marathon sees a case study of American landscape built for the automobile society. You meet sidewalks only occasionally, in the town centers. To get from the garden store to the Big D Wonder Mart to the HeadQuarters hair salon, you need a car. Without the automobile, this strip development would not make sense...
...inaction, waiting, even boredom, and in this they were perfectly true to the social world they addressed, since most of the life of a girl in a maison close was taken up with sitting around. The tedium of the big-city seraglio becomes monumental, almost Egyptian, with In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins, circa...