Word: shaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandberg, 27, a political-campaign worker in Boston, whose attitude seems typical of her generation. "I'm feminine, not a feminist," insists Linn Thomas, an Auburn University senior, in another variation on the theme. Adds Thomas: "I picture a feminist as someone who is masculine and who doesn't shave her legs and is doing everything she can to deny that she is feminine...
...dulcet, tones. Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop the historic implications of his campaign in a protective cloak of Bill Cosbyesque banalities...
...that sound in two ways. First, by using a wide open mouthpiece and a very hard reed -- a Rico Royale No. 5 -- which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played the Albert," says Woody...
...chair of the Gillette Company, Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, a member of the Harvard Corporation, describes the Sensor as follows: "It gives the best shave I've ever had by far. And it gives it time after time. This one's for everybody...
...message is simple: it doesn't matter who you are or where you stand in this society--for those five minutes in front of the mirror every morning you are getting just as close, just as comfortable, a shave as the chief executive officer of a multinational corporation. Sudden material equality for $3.75 (three razors included...