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Perm
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A permanent.
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By the time I'd left the first agency, I had a job lined up: a month of 'temp to perm' customer service work at a call centre.
I've been to gigs where I've felt like I was the only person in the room for a brief moment, transfixed and transported, only to wish that person with a massive perm sitting directly in my line of vision didn't have such a bad case of the fidgets.
Rudi Völler standing in thoughtful meditation with his hands on his hips in the immediate aftermath of one of the most unjust dismissals in World Cup history, while over his right shoulder, his Dutch rival Frank Rijkaard looks to be inspecting the massive grolly he had just violently expectorated and left dangling from the back of the German striker's bubble perm like a Christmas tree bauble.
But then, if I had no one to complain to about said perm hair and have a giggle, would the entire evening be as good?
Schumer's women are cheated on, forgotten about, and loved only for incidental reasons – an ill-advised perm, for example – unrelated to their actual selves.
Women, who mostly staffed telephone exchanges in the beginning, made natural speaking clocks, efficient and friendly, perm and pearls and feather-duster; but for that sense of Chronos or Saturn, or Father Time himself, it had to be Mr Cobby's voice.
But then a serpent slithers into their crooked paradise: an over-eager FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) with a tight perm and an anger-management problem.
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Search me Paper kingdom The best since sliced bread ReprintsMr Edelman cut his teeth with a publicity stunt promoting the then revolutionary Toni home-perm kits.
It took a full nine months for The Independent to obtain perm-ission to travel here, and it required the signature of at least seven officials to meet Sharmila.
The Perm-Kazan highway also crosses the republic.
Perm-36, in particular, housed dissidents well into the 1980s, including Vasyl Stus, a Ukrainian poet and activist in the Ukrainian dissident movement, who died there following a hunger strike in 1985.
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