Word: fat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spell (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a sensitively observed and breathingly real tragedy of family life. Alma Duval (Shirley Booth) is a nice, warm, middle-aged body, given to sentiment, running to fat, the kind of woman whose world is bounded by porch and kitchen, husband and kids. She lives in a pleasant, old-fashioned house in a middle-class section of New Orleans, and her man (Anthony Quinn), a virile, still handsome Cajun ("They always stay young and excitable"), runs a successful employment agency. The three children are good-looking and intelligent. The oldest (Earl Holliman) is a live wire...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette, larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siècle sets and costumes - a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...
...cones of scented unguents on their heads to melt and thus perfume their faces. The Greeks used makeup and perfume, prized a fine appearance so highly that Athenian magistrates fined sloppy women. In Imperial Rome, women blackened their eyelids, whitened their skins with chalk or white lead, used animal fat and eggs of ants to treat their skin. Ovid scolded his mistress: "Did I not tell you to leave off dyeing your hair? Now you have no hair left...
Most of the difference between the cost and the wholesale price goes into packaging and advertising-which often cost more than the product itself. For the top companies, profits are fat; Revlon made a 9.4% profit on its gross after taxes, more than leaders in many another industry. Said a Denver manufacturer, who admits to a 900% markup on certain products: "A cheap line wouldn't do well. Women wouldn't be caught dead telling their friends they bought cheap cosmetics...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette, larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de sieècle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...