Word: salons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to John G. Weston, a stylist at About Hair, most people return to the salon, although they don't always go to the same hair designer...
...Harvard students, we've had their families come for years," says Thomas V. Derensis, the manager at Alfred Hair Salon on JFK. "The Ginsburgs have been coming for years, Susan ('88), Matt ('86) and Amy all got their hair cut here...
...scene was a hip little hair salon off Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. A personable young man with Hollywood good looks and a funny foreign name was getting his wavy, dark-blond hair cut. The barber struck up a conversation. "So," she inquired, "what do you do?" He replied that he worked with the local symphony orchestra. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "What instrument do you play?" Actually, he said, he was the conductor -- had she ever attended a concert? "Of course not," she said, and went back to cutting his hair...
...this exhibition is to see why Charles Baudelaire, reviewing the Paris Salon of 1845, placed Daumier, as a draftsman, in the company of Ingres and Delacroix. He was, of course, different from both. Unlike Ingres, Daumier wasn't interested in ideal form or perfect "Greek" contour, even though classical prototypes inform his work -- how far, one can easily judge from his scenes of refugees straggling across an open landscape, which bear a distinct relation to the friezes on Trajan's Column, known to him from engravings. He loved to guy the sacred Antique, but it was the kind of satire...
...Presidential Inaugural Committee, presumably with the hope that TV viewers will notice their vehicles as they carry VIPs down Pennsylvania Avenue. Korbel has provided 800 cases of a "Special Inaugural Cuvee," emblazoned with the presidential seal; Clairol has invited journalists to have their hair done at a Washington salon, while MTV is throwing its own Inaugural ball with the high-minded goal of honoring "the young Americans who voted in the 1992 presidential election." The chance to engender goodwill also prompted Time-Life Video to produce a taped account of the week's highlights, with the profits going...