Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
From the time the great cosmetic boom hit the U.S. at the end of World War II until recent years, it was a whites-only proposition. "Let's face it," a black beauty specialist says. "The black woman just didn't need cosmetics then. Her job outside the...
How to cope with these students in Minneapolis or with other dissenters and radicals? One imperative is to make distinctions between them, to recognize that -like the Middle Americans-they are not a single-minded bloc, that they include verkrampte and verhgte in their ranks. But the most important thing...