Word: bleachings
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...conventions of beauty underlying those of art. For instance, the ideal Italian Renaissance woman had to be a white-skinned blond. Brunets would simply not do. Fashion, literature and the formal constructions of desire insisted on that. Since Italy, then as now, was short of pale natural blonds, bleaching was in order. A favorite bleach--especially in Venice, where prostitutes had to be blond to succeed--was human urine. Whose, history does...
What makes film such a powerful medium is that it combines the randomness of a performance (the camera performs, the actors perform, the production designer performs) with the indelibility of the final print. The problem with computer technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects?...
...nation's two food-safety agencies, the Department of Agriculture, which inspects beef and poultry, including imports, and the Food and Drug Administration, which overlooks most other processed foods. Consumers can protect themselves by washing raw fruits and vegetables in soap and water or a dilute chlorine bleach solution...
...courageously defending our nation against terrorism by scrubbing the floors of my Army Reserve unit in Queens, New York City. (I'd been late on Saturday.) It was listless work - most of the boot-marks were waxed in long ago. Mainly I was trying not to get powdered bleach on my new combat boots...
...radio (“All the women who are independent/Throw your hands up at me”). The tricks to avoid being overwhelmed, as my trainer Ruthie taught me, are to always do something, and to know that anything can be kept clean with hot water and bleach...