Word: facials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While under severe nervous strain-in a taxi waiting for a light to turn green, in a restaurant waiting for a tardy guest-"use the waiting time to advantage . . . Let the jaw drop down until it feels about to crack. This relaxes the facial muscles . . . Bring the finger tips together at the base of the skull and lift hard, pulling the head up and stretching the neck muscles . . . Wiggle the toes inside the shoes. Limbering the big toe can do much towards improving the general feeling of well-being . . . Flabby buttocks have much the same effect on the body...
...Great public interest has been aroused by the recent announcement of the "sandpaper treatment" for facial defects such as acne scars [TIME, March 13]. Although this technique would appear on the surface to be a harmless procedure, it is our opinion that the public should be warned against some very untoward effects which can result if this treatment is not done by the most highly qualified surgeons aware of the hazards...
Maurice Chevalier has the top spot as far as performing honors go-his imperturbable jauntiness and brashness have a decidedly infections quality. He is a past master of the "slow burn"-the process of catching on to a situation slowly and reflecting this in a radical change of facial expression. Here is where Chevalier's twitching eyebrows and sliding scalp work an hard that they aboost earn feature billing...
There are some surprisingly sophisticated characterizations in this film. Cinderella's wisked stepmother is an example. I doubt that a live actress could have made as odious as impression as the animated woman. The stepmother's facial expressions, particularly the piercing eyes, seemed to scare the whole audience; many actually huddled together when she appeared on the screen. A close second for sheer hateability is the stepmother's leering, sharp clawed cat. This formidable Tabby does everything in his power to hurt poor Cindy and her mouse friends. It was with great pleasure that I watched him meet his awful...
Submerged by this love story hopelessly entangled by polities is the account of the trial itself. Charles Bickford, the Cardinal in the movie, is one of the few who can act. He, at least, has a variation of facial expression and a change of inflection in his voice. His prosecutors, however, are a series of the most evil looking men that have been seen on the screen since the fall of the movie Gestapo. The similarity of the Hungarian police force and the stereotype Gestapo is, of course, intended, but I felt it was carried to a ludicrous extreme...