Word: goop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon discover, along with the two unemployed concubines who are more or less tourguides for the show, that this is no ordinary spot. It's a sandswept, burning wasteland, oozing with mysterious "black goop." Everyone's concerned only to avoid the heat, and our luckless heroines, Alma Lovin (Brian Kenet) and Gwen Myway (David Nacht) can't even sell their experienced bodies. It's "Just deserts...In the land that God forgot/It's too darn...
...enough to send for a free book on a very delicate subject?" asks the ad in a men's magazine. Bad breath? Dandruff? Body odor? Not quite. The latest wrinkle in self-improvement for men is skin care. It seems that after kidding the wife about all that goop she put on her face, some husbands were sneaking the stuff themselves. Now many men are coming out of the water closet and openly buying pricey new shave creams and such exotic accompaniments as toners, tightening masks, bronzers and even under-eye cream...
...medal they get as an Inaugural gift. But Ronald Reagan not only agreed to three sittings, he had a life mask made. Only Abe Lincoln, whose likeness was sculpted in 1860, had been so masochistic. For 20 minutes the President-elect sat motionless, slathered crown to collarbone with silicone goop, straws jutting from his ears and nostrils. After the 20-minute ordeal, Sculptor Edward Fraughton pronounced him a model model: "He's used to being made up." But not quite so heavily. "Boys," cracked Reagan, "there's one take on this -that...