Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect set of facial expressions. But on an area stage especially, an actress needs to express her character with her voice as well. Whenever Miss Cole turned her back to play to another section of the theater, she seemed to step out of character. Without her smile and arching eyebrow to suggest the grand coquette, she sounded like a girl reading intriguing prose...
...period. The ruling stemmed from a clause in the law that suspends the statute of limitations (four years in antitrust cases) if plaintiffs can prove both that price-fixing had been practiced long before the indictment and had been "fraudulently concealed." Lawyers for the electrical-equipment companies offered an eyebrow-raising defense. They did not deny the price-fixing conspiracy but denied that it had been "fraudulently concealed." They contended, in effect, that customers knew about the fix but that high officers of the electrical-equipment companies did not. The jury found this hard to accept...
...three Latin American nations last week, elections produced some eyebrow-raising results-two because they brought serious reverses for government parties, the other simply because it was honest...
...Eyed Look, achieved with the aid of mascara, eyebrow pencil, eye liner and eye shadow, has been around for a while. But until recently, only show girls admitted to wearing false eyelashes, and they, poor things, are a notoriously shameless lot. Now, astonishingly, false eyelashes have been declared chic. And not only chic, but essential. Overnight, beauty salons have engaged eyelash "falseticians" who, for an average price of $5, will measure and trim the customer's falsies as well as instruct her on how to apply and remove them...
...studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost of the vast pile has soared from an original estimate of $2,500,000 to a whopping $20 million...