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...that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed out sachets of powder ground from squirrels' bones that she promised would make the recipients invisible to government soldiers. The widespread belief in magical powers that pervades the region...
...spreading to an amazing array of goods and services. Consumers in a growing number of cities can get a haircut at Hair Performers, buy hearing aids at Miracle-Ear, do their laundry at Duds 'N Suds, have their homes cleaned by Maids International and get an auto "engine shampoo" at Tidy Car, seek business advice at Priority Management Systems or lose weight at Suddenly Slender and Designer Body spas...
...raised eyebrows by propositioning Warren Beatty onscreen in Shampoo. At 21 she took her career cosmic by playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. Now Carrie Fisher, 30, is making waves again as a first-time novelist. Postcards from the Edge (Simon & Schuster; $15.95), due in bookstores next month, is a dark comedy about a troubled young actress named Suzanne Vale. Overwhelmed by money, men and success, Suzanne ends up in a drug- rehabilitation clinic feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Fisher, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds...
Sometimes before I shampoo my hair I read the directions on the bottle--"lather, rinse, repeat"--and then become trapped in the infinite cycle. It often takes weeks before I am discovered and rescued...
Luxury hotels around the world coddle guests by stocking vials of shampoo and mouthwash, small cans of shaving cream and plastic shower caps in their bathrooms. Now the Shangrila Hotel in Montreal may have started a trend in giveaways. Aware of concern over the AIDS epidemic, management is going to tuck condoms in the welcoming baskets. Says General Manager Pierre Quintal: "We are not condoning any type of promiscuous activity. Like the other products offered in the hotel's rooms, they are there to use if you have the need for them." Sniffed a spokesman at the city's Ritz...