Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plight of the playwright as social reformer is to turn one generation's problem into the next generation's platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of antibiotics, it will scarcely lift an eyebrow, let alone carry a play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed. What is far from dated is Ibsen...
...TIME will seek the real facts, it will find that its figures represent total listings in an annual catalogue of drug store merchandise, the Red Book, whose listings, roughly, run from Ace combs to Zoe eyebrow pencils, from adhesive tape to vending machines for postage stamps...
COSMETIC MAKERS will have to get a safety clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for their products before they can sell them, under legislation urged by Health Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. FDA recently seized 400,000 Hazel Bishop eyebrow pencils that FDA said contained irritating coal-tar colors...
Morris used Boylston's shallow stage to perfection. He kept the actors moving in a fluid and carefully planned ballet. Every time a step was taken, an arm raised, an eyebrow lifted, one caught a glimpse of the puppeteer behind the scenes. The balance between the medieval and the modern was made most strongly by Bill Wilder's ingenious score, which shifted gracefully from twelfth century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even...
...then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...