Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early church saw these attitudes toward sex as unnatural. In defining what they meant by natural, theologians turned to an idea of the Stoics-that the nature of something was defined by its purpose. Just as the eye was for seeing, the generative organs were for generating. And only for generating. Thus, St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century wrote: "We Christians marry only to produce children." Even stronger in tone was St. Augustine. Apart from childbearing, he gloomily concluded, "the marriage chamber is a brothel . . . husbands are shameful lovers, wives are harlots...
...women have acquired a new face. It is the pale pale look. And in the look, the eye is the thing...
Almost unnoticeably, other features have been fading. First to go was the vivid mouth. By 1961 beige lipsticks, or maybe the faintest pink or tangerine, were de rigueur. Next, bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have to go. Cosmeticians have decided they are merely distracting. Short of shaving them off (shaved brows sometimes won't grow back), the experts are advocating any camouflage method: bleaching, masking them with foundation creams, or even covering them up with a fringe of bangs...
Straight to the Eyeball. Nothing is too good for the eye itself. "Men gaze first into a woman's eyes even before her décolletage," says Elizabeth Arden's top Makeup Artist Pablo. Eyes are outlined in black and thatched with double-thick layers of false lashes. "We want to direct attention straight into the eyeball," says Saks Fifth Avenue's Evelyn Marshall. Lest eyelids get in the way of the ultimate goal, cosmetic firms are now touting a frosty white eye shadow to replace the usual blues and greens. Heavily applied, such white eye shadow...
...attitude seems appropriate to the movie's funniest scene-pondering strategy after a fierce battle waged in a blinding sandstorm, he finds that there hasn't been a single casualty on any side. Actress Remick's pioneer prudery is the standard brand, softened with lipstick, eye shadow and plunging necklines...