Word: cosmeticize
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"Now I'm a sculptor. Isn't it silly?" he said, but he didn't mean it. To him, his style of sculpturing is unalloyed joy, and all around Rube Goldberg's studio the happy evidence is beginning to pile up. There is a balloon-breasted...
a cordovan shoe glows red and blue along its welt, the arches of bare feet purple in the corrosive illumination that gives simple poses a seductive superreality. His images are lush with cosmetic painterliness; his white backgrounds are impastos of frosting.
One building must have been full of combustible material; the fire inside got so hot that it baked the clay walls into reddish brick. A line of 72 loom weights in one corner made Dr. Pritchard suspect that the structure was a primitive textile factory full of inflammable weaving materials...
Cosmetic-conscious women have dutifully painted their lips vermilion one season, chalk white the next, applied pancake, powder and rouge with abandon (when Vogue endorsed The Ruddy Look), cut down on foundation bases (when Harper's Bazaar approved of Naked Cheeks). Hair styles have changed so often during the...
Littlefield will play Diedre Dauphine, a former star of stage and the silent screen who agrees to appear in a television spectacular of a shakespeare play. The spectacular's sponsor is a company owned by Mrs. Biltmore St. Regis, a New York cosmetic industry cxarina played by Bright.