There was also a pandemic the H3N2 virus killed more than 100,000 Americans and a million worldwide. troops massacred children and unarmed villagers in Mylai and in Chicago, police cracked heads and broke limbs of young demonstrators while Democrats held their convention fortified behind barbed wire. Our most inspiring leaders-Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy-were assassinated in quick succession in Vietnam, U.S. I realize, of course, that in these times, bad hair is a petty problem.Ĭommentators have compared the present to1968. I’d come there because I couldn’t stand my hair any longer. Looking around the salon, I figured I was at least 30 years older than everyone else. I’d seen signs around town for “balayage,” but thought it was something like the Brazilian hair straightening treatment that had come and gone. My generation didn’t get tattoos, I said, although I’d known one woman and one man who did, and regretted it. And she had a delicate tattoo starting at the nape of her neck and disappearing down the front of her black t-strap dress. Was she crazy? She was 26, with blue eyes and dark hair falling in waves down her back. “Do you have a tattoo?” the hair stylist, Jennifer, asked me.
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