Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirk, a port stroke, in contrast to Janice Nevins, who stroked from the starboard side, transforms the whole complexion of the eight, flipping all the riggings over to the other side...
...help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where the saleswomen wear white uniforms and products are packaged in antiseptic green. On the counter sits a computer-like box that asks the customer eight questions about her complexion, which she answers by moving silver knobs. The answers are supposed to determine her skin type and thus the right group of Clinique cleansers, moisturizers and creams for her. Or him. Two years ago, Clinique started to market a full line...
...Neiman-Marcus are about to open salons exclusively for them. Reports Billye Newman, an Arpel's executive: "We're not getting the gay guy. We're getting the truck drivers and the men who do dirty work. A jackhammer doesn't do anything for your complexion...
Ward leans most heavily on self-deprecation, recounting complexion problems, physical and sexual awkwardness, troubles with athletics and school, which only embarasses the reader. Woody Allen, among others, used self-deprecation as a vehicle for more complex comedy; Ward flails away at himself and expects laughs. His self-deprecation seems less a comedic device than an unholy bargain, trading self-respect for laughs, resembling nothing so much as a child banging his head against the crib to gain attention...
Blond-haired Louise, whom proud father John described in the Daily Mail as "beautiful, with a marvelous complexion, not red and wrinkly at all," is also at the end of her beginning. Three days after birth, she had gained 2 oz. and was being breast fed. She and her mother will remain in the hospital for about ten days. Then, said John Brown, "we're just going to go home and try to slide back into our own world . . . we don't want a newfangled life." Whether that will be possible is another question. Asked by reporters if the world...