Word: complexion
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...surprises emerge, though there is endless blathering later about the color of the President's skin, the timbre of his voice and what this word or that phrase meant compared with what he said someplace else. A little of that is worthy grist: e.g., Reagan's complexion. Three days later the President went to Bethesda Naval Hospital for his first checkup since his cancer operation in July, and the results made news. The doctors reported a "100% complete recovery" from the surgery...
Gammons argues that the complexion of major league baseball has changed profoundly since the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. In that contest between the Cincinnati Reds and the Red Sox, a game that is now consistently recalled as among the most exciting ever played, the Sox defeated the Reds when catcher Carlton Fisk hit a twelfth inning home run just inside the left field foul pole. The Reds won the series the next day in less dramatic fashion, and just a few weeks later the free agent was born, changing baseball forever...
...gripped Gorbachev's hand in Moscow last Wednesday afternoon. Funerals are robust ground for political intrigue. Bush, the former CIA head, hardly needed coaching. From the Brezhnev and Andropov burials he returned with mental notes on eye contact, humor, intellectual agility, confidence, vitality, tailoring, shirt collars, hair color, complexion and hand size...
...people whose ideal of beauty is a bronze complexion in February, tanning parlors are sprouting faster than dandelions in May. Though no precise figures are available, tanning salons are raking in an estimated $300 million a year. At one of the trendiest, Hollywood's Uvasun, such celebrities as Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Mariel Hemingway and even Mr. Tan himself, George Hamilton, spend upwards of $30 an hour to maintain their sunbaked looks. Less exclusive salons charge between $3 and $15 for half an hour in the synthetic sunlight. UVA Tan, located in an upscale Atlanta suburb, expanded two months...
...aficionados are first attracted by the promise of closer shaves. Shoe Salesman Marte Mejstrik, 27, of Lincoln, Neb., tried Clinique's "allergy tested" shaving formula on his sensitive skin; it worked so well he went on to a variation of the twice-a-day, three-step regimen of complexion soap, "scruffing lotion" and moisturizer. Special creams like Solutions for Men shave gel complete with aloe vera sell for $7.50 for 3 oz., compared with $1.59 for a 7-oz. can of Gillette Foamy. The new products "give smoother results because they contain more lubricating emollients and fewer air bubbles...