Word: haired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most people, I'm a little insecure when it comes to haircuts. Back in my Home Town, it's easy. There's only one final destination for all the unwanted curls and locks in the neighborhood--the Home Town barber shop. "We know hair like Trump knows money," reads the sign on the awning...
...easy in Cambridge. Who will fill in for the Home Town barbers? Suave stylists or cut-rate cutters? Chatty barbers or antiseptic hair-removal experts...
...Carol's," he whispers. "They don't cut hair; they style it." Visual confirmation of his words stands atop his head, a regiment of follicle-soldiers gelled in position...
...absolutelyabsolved from blame. The time she ahd spent inchurch ahd been restful and contemplative,however. She had enjoyed the way the light hadseemed to crash vigorously into the stained glasswindows only to be diffused into blues and yellowswhich filtered easily into the church. The lightsat in the people's hair as they lined up in thepews. It was the ritual that had driven her fromthe church, the Mass and a sermon every Sunday atten o'clock...
...form below the unperturbed surface. There is no texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien...