Word: caked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible to have a mulled russet eye shadow, a Dubonnet-toned rouge and a nail polish that falls somewhere between brown and mauve. Red lipstick in the '40s tended to be blue-red and caky in consistency; the '70s red is clear and guaranteed not to cake. So wide is the range of colors she has before her, a woman can now be her own Gauguin when she dabs away in front of her cosmetics mirror...
Forgotten for the moment were the prize burnt-sugar cake, the first-place parsnips, the Ferris wheel, and other folksy pleasures of the Du Quoin state fair. In this small Southern Illinois town (pop. 6,691), harness racing fans could even forget the aura of scandal that periodically haunts the sport-such as last June's scandal at Yonkers Raceway, which involved an amazingly low Exacta payoff, indicating a betting coup. But here, at the 46th running of the Hambletonian, no betting was allowed or ever had been by long tradition. The U.S.'s most prestigious race...
...name of this game is not predictions, although they can be the frosting on the cake," says Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, who did the principal reporting from Washington for this week's cover story on the U.S. economy. "The job is trying to explain to people what is happening to their livelihoods and why." This is what we set out to do in our major economic stories, but we are also happy to satisfy the universal taste for frosting. Thanks to Malkin's reporting and the analyses by Business Editor Marshall Loch's staff, the record has been...
...BELEN, N. MEX. The caboose is no Pullman car, but it is comfortable enough with folded-down seats to sleep on, a lavatory, a small refrigerator, a water cooler and an oil stove, which serves to heat the car and warm the breakfast coffee cake. The desert dawn is bright and clear; the sun backlights the Manzano Mountains to the east. The train climbs continually to the Continental Divide crossing at Gonzales. "Back in the days of hand-fired steam locomotives, we were real glad to get here," says Ray Derksen, acting train master at Gallup. Derksen points...
...first wives come to jeer, and the scores and strikeouts have more to do with careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England, the upper classes are "unaggressively handsome, that is to say, somewhat wanting, like an underdeveloped photograph...