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Word: beautyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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A persona to sell cosmetics must have a much more subtle appeal than one hawking dresses, furs or bras. Garments speak for themselves, and the wearer must simply show them to good advantage. Makeup is something else. It blends with the face, and the potential customer cannot distinguish the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Making Magic with a Funny Face | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

The beauty of Faulkner's style is his long, inward-turning sentences, like distracted monologues that veil the intended revelation. He doesn't attach himself to details in any precise, coordinated way, but roams about looking for the latent image. At times, though, his wordiness turns against him:

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Old South Bites the Dust | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

Graffiti was shot in Techniscope, a wide-screen process that yields the authentic sandpaper grain of the AIP pictures, implying low budgets and quick takes. The vital difference is that Graffiti was photographed by Haskell Wexler, that most subtle and agile of cameramen. Most of the action takes place at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fabulous '50s | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

Small Changes almost totally lacks that earlier book's homely virtues. The dust jacket says that Miss Piercy has become active in the feminist movement, and instead of creating believable characters, she has set some stick figures in motion to illustrate her conviction that women would be better off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stiff Upper Lib | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

It is curious that there is no ostensible decline in Monroe's beauty. Makeup was always part of her performance--although audiences saw her most often as a pale white angel with a moist red mouth. What struck many who met her for the first time in person was that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mailer/Monroe: The Moth and the Star | 8/14/1973 | See Source »

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