Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieve artistic disorder-or the well-groomed look of order-the beauty-conscious woman spends half an hour daily making up at home, has a cabinet full of the latest beauty aids. Says a Montclair, N.J. insurance executive whose wife wears Wings on her forehead at night to smooth out wrinkles: "I kiss her good night, and I think I'm in bed with American Airlines." Playwright-Author Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Kerr wears so much cold cream at night that she says: "I go to bed like I'm going to swim...
Lilies & Placenta. But the beauty industry is far more interested in finding new products than rescuing old ones, is moving more and more into research. Revlon has more than 70 chemists on its staff, and about half its current sales are from products introduced since 1950, e.g., high-gloss lipstick. Top Brass hair dressing for men and hair sprays. Charlie Revson, who proclaims that "research is a deep religion with me," likes to don a white coat and take a turn at the retorts. On the average, a product takes from a year and a half to two years from...
...does she? If she does, then who is that redhead Stewart sees on the street about six months later? Surely only Kim could look so beatifically bovine. Surely, by this-time, the question is of little interest, particularly after a half-hour or so of psychiatric disquisition that interrupts the plot and suspends the suspense. Still, Actor Stewart is a fascinating old pro, and in this picture Actress Novak hits a new high in her cinema career. As Director Hitchcock expressed it: "She doesn't ruin the story...
...went as gaga as a vacationing schoolmarm before the beauties of Versailles ("an exquisite dream"), the cathedral in Milan ("The princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived") and the Acropolis by moonlight ("All the beauty in all the world combined could not rival it"). As if half-ashamed of such ecstatic outbursts, he lapsed into heavy-handed gags about "Mike" Angelo and the tomb of Lazarus ("I had rather live in it than in any house in the town"). Even in such jests Twain foreshadowed an emergent American who, while he had not yet come of age, was prepared...
...Xenophon had to use all his oratorical skill to keep them from stoning him to death because the troops suspected he planned to use them to found a city instead of taking them home. The glorious march up country ends on this pitiful note of bickering and betrayal. Scarcely half the Greeks who had started to overthrow Persia survived, and they were all much poorer than when they began. Only the world was richer by Xenophon's Anabasis...