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...control of Revlon in a decidedly hostile 1985 takeover, he promised the treatment usually offered to the beauty behemoth's customers -- a complete make-over. In the years following the death of founder Charles Revson, the legendary line's earnings and stock price had faded faster than a bad dye job. Perelman re-established Revlon as an industry leader by focusing on its best-known products: cosmetics...
...When M&M's finally decided that they were going to make red M&Ms, he sent a letter in to them saying 'the dye used in making red M&M's is harmful, you should reconsider,'" Glickman recalls. M&M Mars sent back a polite letter thanking Starr for his comments--and a coupon for a package of the new M&M's, complete with the red ones...
...women pick on Barbara Bush? If anything, the feminist police should give her an award for resisting pressure from every side to slim down, work out, dye her hair, hide her wrinkles or wear clothes no grandchild would dare drool on. Instead the First Lady must be feeling a little like Henry Kissinger, who attracted protests nearly every time he was invited to a college campus. But it's not the secret bombing of Cambodia that has a quarter of the senior class at Wellesley College objecting to the First Lady as speaker at this year's graduation...
...left of the entrance is a caribou-skin cloak decorated with woven porcupine quills. The Native Americans, said Brown, "would take [the quills], boil them, flatten them with their teeth, then dye them and weave them...
...reaction remains benign tolerance. Just a few weeks ago, when marijuana made a furtive appearance at my wife's 20th high school reunion in upstate New York, I viewed this throwback gesture as a quaint affectation, almost as if the class of '69 had all shown up in tie-dye T shirts instead of business suits and cocktail dresses...