Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panchromatic base, a tan cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied in making...
When that occurred (by drowning, in the Gulf of Spezia, 1822), Shelley's second wife, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), was left penniless. For the sake of her small son, Percy Florence Shelley, the only one of their four children to survive the Italian climate or their father's theories of human happiness, she decided to go home and rehabilitate the Shelley name...
...this day become the new master of brutality, infamy, atrocity. Bataan, Buchenwald, Dachau, Coventry, Lidice were tea parties compared with the horror which we, the people of the United States of America, have dumped on the world in the form of atomic energy bombs. No peacetime applications of this Frankenstein monster can ever erase the crime we have committed. We have paved the way for the obliteration of our globe. It is no democracy where such an outrage can be committed without our consent...
...Wisp-haired, preoccupied Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle chose a deft, architectonic watercolor of The Rockies by California's Dong Kingman...
...some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead ones. He wants merely to preserve himself at a perpetual 35 by getting periodical surgical instalments of the glands of other men, who customarily die as a result of the transaction...