Word: elixir
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...children in middle-class West Philadelphia; his parents Willard and Caroline divorced when he was 13. From his father, who worked seven days a week running a refrigerator company, Smith inherited his work ethic. From his mother, a school-board employee, he derived the notion that "education is the elixir for all problems," he says. "Every problem Jada and I have ever had, we found the answer in a book." The Smiths have a family library stocked with everything from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism to homeschooling texts for their children--Willow, 7, and Jaden, 9, and Smith...
Forster (Monster's Ball, Stranger Than Fiction) has ingested this elixir deeply. He's not out to make a spare, understated art film; he knows that the novel owes more to Hollywood than to Iranian cinema. So he pushes each scene, each character to extremes. Viewers will either be swept away ennobled or feel manipulated, even as they wipe away tears. The emotions may be forced, but that doesn't mean the movie...
...reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as an escaped mental patient who charms lonely Phyllis Thaxter in Fog Closing In, or the struggling writer fleecing an established one in Act of Faith. He's terrific in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: one as a fellow seeking a love elixir, the other as a man returning to his home town to find that no one remembers him. His face could exude menace or be blankly naive; but it wasn't what he did, it's who he became. A thing called... acting...
...Glazman, CEO of Boston-based Fresh cosmetics, was growing up in Russia, sea buckthorn berry oil was a popular home remedy his mother applied to scrapes and burns. "It helped the healing process tremendously," he says. Today it has become the star component of Fresh's newest antiaging product, Elixir Ancien. Sea buckthorn, along with a host of other arctic berries, is the miracle medicine du jour in the fast-paced world of skin care...
...Complex. But aside from this being a niche market for Nordic-focused brands, more mainstream cosmetics companies have embraced the trend as well. Orlane uses arctic cranberry seed oil in Hypnotherapy, a product meant to fight the effects of stress-induced aging. And of course there's Fresh's Elixir Ancien, a face oil made by hand in a Czech monastery. Glazman says now that they have the technology down?the use of sea buckthorn oil in cosmetics requires its staining red color and noxious gasoline smell to be removed?Fresh plans to use the oil in more creams...