Word: shave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even up yet. There is just the first yellowing grayness in the sky, beyond the oak trees at the edge of the garden. But for Richard Nixon it is no time to be sleeping. He gets up early, as he always has. Up, up to shower, to shave, to reach for a fresh shirt and a necktie, always a necktie. Then he pads down the stairs of his 15-room, $1 million stone-and-red-wood mansion to make his own breakfast: toast and coffee. His housekeeper is not awake yet, but the Secret Service men are, ready to accompany...
...kicking a spotted ball around a park bench. Nadia Comaneci, a guest of the L.A.O.O.C., is staying with her old team. "It is very bright and cheerful. I like everything very much," says the darling gymnast of Montreal. A Lebanese long jumper, Gabi Issa El Khouri, who could shave clear up to his eyes, is rolling them at the second most wonderful question put to him so far: Are Los Angeles and Beirut much different...
Amid this chaos and despair, the professor irrationally hopes. A mad, glorious scene near the end captures Danny's self-contradiction. At a wedding reception in Toronto, the guests become obsessed with recalling gallows-humor stories about a Kostelec hangman who forced condemned prisoners to shave, and shave again until the blood trickled from their chins as they mustered to face their doom. Then he would shout: "Back to your cells, gentlemen. The execution is postponed...
...This time I did shave him, but I didn't make him pay. I told him about the night before but he didn't remember. I'm too nice a guy," says Papalimberis...
...wasn't always smooth shaving for Papalimberis and his crew. When he owned his shop in Central Square, a bar was right next door. One night, remembers Papalimberis, a drunk marine came from the bar and demanded George give him a shave. George complied, sat his customer in a chair and promptly threw hot towels over his face. The marine fell asleep and after he woke up. Papalimberis told him that he had been shaved. The drunkard paid George and came back the next day (drunk again) demanding a shave...