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...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...
According to local hairstylists, sideburns may be big in magazines, but real people are not wearing them. "If you want to say 'in' they're in." said Gerald Laurentano, owner of Harvard Square salon Jerry's Underground. "But most of the guys I talk to are into low maintenance...
...checks for six months, Washington State gives them one lump sum. In its Self-Employment and Enterprise Development project, 450 jobless workers since 1989 have collected lump-sum payments averaging $4,200. Among the SEED startups: a plumbing business, a money-management firm, a landscaping company and a tanning salon. Ronald Wilmoth, 43, used his $7,000 check as part of his financing to buy the Olympia, Wash., electronics store where he had worked for 21 years before being laid off in 1990 when the chain that owned the store went bankrupt. Says Wilmoth, who employs six workers: "I would...
...take such cases, because the risks are great and the rewards small. The burden of proof is very high; as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis noted in one ruling, the laws on sexual harassment "do not mandate an employment environment worthy of a Victorian salon." When women were asked why they had never taken formal action, the answer was stunningly consistent: Why commit professional suicide...
...wonder that the image of the Wessi is a fat man with alligator-hide shoes and a Mercedes-Benz, a Goldgraber, best translated as carpetbagger. "They are unbelievably arrogant," says Stephan Engelberger, 24, an east Berlin hairdresser who recently opened his own salon. "They have plenty of money, but they come over here because everything is cheaper. They behave as if everything belongs to them, as if they know it all and we are stupid...