Word: cosmeticize
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It is the smaller, independent manu facturers who provide the most comprehensive and insistently organic cosmetics. Gwen Seager Taylor's line - Cosmetic Originals by Gwen-is distributed through health-food stores in California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts...
Prompted by a torrent of complaints from victimized buyers, Banking Committee staff members investigated Section 235 homes in ten cities. "It is common practice in the inner city," said the report, "to pick up houses for minimal amounts, perform a so-called 'paste-up' or 'cosmetic'...
The play focuses on a famed ex-songstress named Evy (Maureen Stapleton), who has succumbed to the demons of alcoholism and nymphomania. She has just come home from a drying-out session at a sanatorium. Will she or will she not hit the bottle and the bed again? This is...
When he has money, a candidate can use it to manufacture an instant public presence. That effect can be salutary: it is a unique way to bypass political party organizations and challenge entrenched incumbents. But in the process, the techniques of political image makers often work in the service of...
The present campaign has a somewhat cosmetic aspect. The bust, executed in gray marble by Stalin Prizewinner Nikolai V. Tomsky, softens Stalin's sharp features and makes him appear humane rather than harsh, wise rather than wily. The current spate of memoirs by World War II Soviet generals speak...