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‘Born to barber’ Tom Bergman gives up the shears after 52 years

Iowa City Press-Citizen 30 Dec 2023
“I just thought it was pretty neat,” he told me ... And kept on working ... Bigger tests in the shop may have come from customers, who often came in with magazine photos of the perm, afro, shag, mullet, or other styles of the decade they wanted replicated.
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How I Lost the Russia That Never Was

The Atlantic 24 Nov 2023
[ Graeme Wood ... [ Read ... Some KGB archives opened ... And so my classmates refused to play with me in the summer of 1979 because my mother had a big, curly Afro perm, loved Boney M., wore bell-bottom pants of her own design, and drove a tiny Zaporozhets car.
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London's Pointe Black ballet school aims to break racial barriers

Reuters 02 Oct 2023
Summary. Photo essay.. LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - It was a pointed comment about her Afro-braided hair that spurred Ruth Essel to carve out what she calls a safe space for Black dancers ... "I have afros ... I have perm rolls ... I have Afro puff bunches ... ....
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A Bob Ross Painting Is Selling for Nearly $10 Million

New York Observer 15 Sep 2023
Thanks in part to Ross’ soothing voice and his signature round afro, The Joy of Painting was a hit. The hair was actually a perm, something Ross tried out to save money on haircuts, and according ...
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An unusual journey to ‘the best job in the world’ | Tell Your Story

Chico Enterprise Record 02 Sep 2023
I was a little concerned about the impression my long hair might confer outside the confines of the Bay Area so my girlfriend gave me an Art Garfunkel style perm the day before the interview. I looked like a white kid with a wannabe afro.
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‘Ya Gotta Believe,’ Revisited

Village Voice 11 Jun 2023
For my 12th birthday, in May 1976, my father took me to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, NY ... a T-shirt, jersey, or cap ... Anything ... He wore a loosely tight Afro-perm, like someone you would see grooving down the Soul Train line ... ❖ ... – • –.
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Whom do you look like?

Wilmington News Journal 27 Apr 2023
One day, he came to class and he had just had his hair “permed.” The “do” was curly and compact, in the “Afro” style that was popular in those days.
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Business Journal: the craze for dreadlocks

Joy Online 21 Apr 2023
The movement is anticipated to lead to a decline in the patronage of regular salons which cater for the permed hair and braids clientele ... The switch from natural, teeny weeny afro or permed hair to locs, means occasional clients’ visits to the salon ... .
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Harvard Author Spotlight: A’Lelia Bundles ’74 Understands the Power of Storytelling

The Harvard Crimson 30 Mar 2023
Bundles entered college in the late ’60s — “when people were going from perms to afros,” she noted. After several years of perming her hair, she wanted an afro too, though her father — like many other parents at the time — was disapproving.
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Michael Douglas: ‘I think the audience sees there’s a struggle – I’m not just a ...

The Guardian 02 Mar 2023
What do you mean? TopTramp A long time ago, after Black Rain (1989) with Ridley Scott – where I got this sort of Anglo-afro perm – my dear friend Jack Nicholson said. “What’s with your hair?” I looked at him and said. “Wait a minute ... It’s amazing ... ....
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Michael Douglas: ‘I think the audience sees there’s a struggle – I’m not just a violent, nasty person’

The Observer 02 Mar 2023
TopTramp. A long time ago, after Black Rain (1989) with Ridley Scott – where I got this sort of Anglo-afro perm – my dear friend Jack Nicholson said. “What’s with your hair?” I looked at him and said. “Wait a minute ... Photograph ... WunWunWagDerWun ... teabags12.
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Grandmother spends hours giving 3-year-old grandson an Afro perm for Lunar New Year thrills Chinese ...

South China Morning Post 28 Jan 2023
A little boy wanted an Afro-style perm for the holidays but couldn’t get into a booked-out salon, so he turned to his grandmother, who used to cut hair 30 years ago ... .
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Ex-UNLV great Glen Gondrezick receives Hall of Fame call

Las Vegas Review-Journal 16 Jun 2022
27, 1977. Gondrezick was inducted into the UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987 ... He was wearing short shorts and high socks and had let his hair grow out — or had it permed — to fit in with the other Rebels who were sporting majestic Afros ... .
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WLHS graduates now filmmakers

Lincoln Times-News 06 Apr 2022
He wants to get away from documentary and into narrative films ... She laughed and pointed and made fun, but then again, she had just gotten her first and only white lady afro perm, so, what did she know? In her defense, it was my mother's idea.” ... .
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