Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, the peculiarly American and Californian ambience caught the eye of many foreign observers. California, noted the Statesman of India with considerable accuracy, is "the home of a hundred strange cults from the merely dotty to the disgusting." A reflection along similar lines prompted Columnist Mustafa Amin of Egypt's al Akhbar to wonder why Jones had not been stopped earlier by the police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable...
...Jimmy Carter's advisers insists that there is a new and different fervor now in the presidential eye when he talks about inflation. "He will listen to you on almost any subject," this man says, "but on inflation he will talk back." The special spark may have been struck, believes this Carter friend, on a spring morning when Speaker Tip O'Neill rumbled in to break fast and snorted, "All the people in my district want to talk about is prices. We are going to have to do something...
...shades of nail polish, many with matching lipsticks, of course. Plus different perfumes, colognes, toilet waters and other fragrances to be worn at the supermarket, on the tennis court, when running?yes, when running?when dining, when saying goodnight to her Sweet Prince. Plus unnumbered shampoos, moisturizers, eye shadows, lip glosses, mascaras and, not least, cleansers to take the stuff off, all adding...
...were just becoming popular. But a 1978 American Ophelia can make herself a different face for each passing mood, each fantasized role, even each time of day. At the office, she can sport the fresh, "natural" look of the career woman, by using a dozen shades and tints, from eye liner to translucent lip gloss, all supposed to make her appear as if she were wearing no makeup at all. Then, in the evening, she can switch to smoky mauve eye shadow and dark red lipstick touched with midnight blue, calculated to give her a mysterious aura that will stand...
...only to prowl the stores to find out why. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, a blue-jeaned young woman sat at the counter being made up by a saleswoman while her husband watched eagerly. She hesitated at first when the bill for her face makeup?eye shadow, foundation, mascara, liners, lip pencils?came to $42. But she gave in and paid when her husband murmured, "You really look great, honey." Then he turned to the salesgirl and asked, "Isn't she pretty?" No one who saw the light in his eyes would have to ask what the woman...