Word: facials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union lunch line, will peruse the Register for hours in search of a name or (with the help of the Student Directory to be published in October) a telephone number. Perhaps it is time for the editors of the Register to consider a new system of organization, perhaps various facial features--chin curvature, nose length, or the like...
...concert stage. Before the audience has had a chance to quiet down, she begins to make strange animal-like noises. Shrieks and grants alternate with sung vowels and machine gun like repetitings of consents as her voice gyrates wildly like a deranged roller-coaster. Her mood and the accompanying facial contortions change every few seconds...
...perfect face. It is Preparation H, the widely advertised ointment sold over the counter to shrink hemorrhoids (painfully enlarged veins in the anal area). Lately, a number of fashion-conscious Los Angeles matrons have been urging their friends to smear it on nightly in order to "close" facial pores and shrink those age-betraying bags under the eyes. "It gives you a dewy look," says Ellen Bennett, who runs a custom wig salon. But Daniel Eastman, a leading Beverly Hills skin-care specialist, protests that it is an "outrageous" fad, and a number of dermatologists back him up. Some doctors...
Effective too is Leontes's occasional facial tic, and the moment when, as he says, "'Tis Polixenes has made thee swell thus," he violently grabs Hermione's burgeoning belly. After the Delphic oracle eventually proclaims Leontes a "jealous tyrant" and the others blameless, this Leontes even pulls out a dagger to stab himself and has to be restrained (incidentally, in the source from which Shakespeare took the story, the king does commit suicide...
...widespread debauchery of the time-which was vividly depicted in Hogarth's etchings-but also to a spate of "weak, feeble and distempered children." Modern medicine has only recently confirmed the ancient folklore. Alcoholic mothers often do bear children with a host of birth defects: skull and facial deformations, defects in the cardiovascular system and mental and physical retardation...