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...away, at Bullock's department store in Sherman Oaks, Calif., Cathy- Lee Vincent, a store employee, is transfixed by the televised image of her face as electronic "makeup" is applied, cleaned off and then reapplied in a rainbow of hues and shades. As Bonnie Sinclair, a promotional representative for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, wields her stylus, a smear of eye shadow reshapes Vincent's eyes. A touch of blusher highlights her cheeks...
Vincent was one of the first to try the computerized makeup system after it was set up at Bullock's. Sitting in front of the computer, she was photographed by a video camera mounted above it and immediately saw her image projected on the screen. Then her beautician, using a stylus to choose brushes and colors from palettes displayed across the top of the screen, made over the image of her face to achieve three different "looks" (two for daytime, one for evening). These were then compared with the original on a four-part split screen. "It's fantastic," says...
...local police forces successfully tracked down 3,816 fugitives. Although most of the arrests resulted from more conventional police tactics, the Puno ploy and similar lures helped to collar violent criminals without anyone being injured. "Scams usually work very well with this type of fugitive," said U.S. Marshal Jerry Bullock, "because their entire lives are devoted to getting something for nothing...
...fears of many Bhopal residents. Even as policemen bearing megaphones cried, "No danger, no danger!" tens of thousands of people left town in a hurry. Dressed in their best clothes, they packed belongings, withdrew money from banks and crowded into, and often on top of, buses and trains. Bicycles, bullock carts, three-wheel scooters and rickshas clogged the streets. With the detoxification still nearly 36 hours away, an estimated 200,000 of the city's 672,000 residents had fled...
...skin-care counter in Chicago's Marshall Field for shaving tips by white-smocked saleswomen. Estee Lauder, which already had the Clinique and Aramis labels, this year added Lauder for Men. A $20 sampler kit of the new Lauder line sold out in less than a week at Bullock's in Los Angeles. Says Baxter Finley, who for two decades has marketed his Baxter of California men's line: "In the last four years everyone and his dog is into skin care...