Coleman finally chased Barber down, and by the time Barber fell to the ground, he had gained 70 yards and 17 seconds had elapsed.
Jarrett had hoped to set the Barber down in the studio, but he hurt his hands in a skiing accident and had to abandon the project.
"It used to be that the barber down the road would send guys who wanted a shave up to see me," he says, "but now they're offering them as well".
Back at Off the Hook, working just a few barber chairs down from Booker, Devery Monagan talked about what's changed and what hasn't.
Inevitably, like Mr. Romney's barber, it comes down to people who know what they're doing.
At a barber shop down the street, which has been packed with men shedding hair and trimming beards grown long during the curfew, Hussein Shweiki, 17, was getting his hair styled with gel.
The meeting was supposed to end at 7 p.m., and as the hour approached, Mr. Savage, the barber, began loudly counting down the time.
More dangerously, the country's Northwest Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, which is located close to the national capital Islamabad, has been Talibanized, with girls' schools, video parlors, cinemas and barber shops forcibly shut down, music and dancing banned and beard-growing made compulsory.
History, this novel shows us, comes not just in the form of official documents, but also in the myths, songs, folk tales, or barber shop gossip passed down from one generation to the next.
If people actually mean that, great, because Bernie looks like he gets his hair cut at a barber college, buys button-downs by the gross at a Van Heusen outlet and chose the dental plate that came free with his insurance.
