Word: shave
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...
...water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest and goofiest sight gags since Stan Laurel looked into a bathroom mirror, saw a gorilla, decided that he must need a shave...
...come out ahead in every election since-state deputy, mayor of São Paulo city (the Chicago of Brazil), governor of São Paulo state. On the stump, he emphasized the fact that he worked around the clock by letting his beard go three days without a shave. Once in office, he built a reputation for honesty and efficiency. "Liberty," as he put it, "is not a permanent concession but a daily battle...
...incident sets a standard that the rest of this bedpan farce from Britain rarely tries to rise above. The picture begins with a pubic shave, continues with a ceremony involving a suppository, settles down to some steady vomiting, wakes up with a scene full of toilet-paper streamers...
...Shave & a Haircut. When Margaret Madeline Chase was born, the cause of woman suffrage was still far from realization, and the notion of a woman serving in the U.S. Senate seemed as remote as the moon. Maggie was the eldest of six children of George and Carrie Chase, a working-class couple in Skowhegan, the picturesque mill town on the Kennebec. George operated a one-chair barbershop with a gilt-framed mirror and a shelf of personal shaving mugs for his regular customers. The family lived next door in a maple-shaded, five-room frame house, and as a small...