Word: hennaed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that homicide can be just a joyride, but Tuesday leads him on to even more glorious heights: together, they gun down her henna-rinsed virago of a mother (Beverly Garland) and light out for Mexico...
...BEAUTY. Few if any of the so-called modern cosmetics are new. Besides shaving off unwanted hair with primitive razors, using rouge, shading their eyes and coloring their lips and nails, women of antiquity stained the soles of their feet with henna and touched up their nipples with purple dye. Perfume was first used at sacred shrines to cover the stench of animals being burned as sacrifices. "Perfume" comes from the Latin, meaning "through the smoke...
...hours, the District's $3,000-a-month star boarder reads movie magazines, performs isometric exercises, chain-smokes Camels while he chain-watches TV, and whips up his favorite recipes on the hot plate. He also spends considerable time fussing with his greying hair, which was dyed henna for his Senate scenes and is now walnut brown. "I put a big dent in Cosa Nostra," he says, "and I'm enjoying...
Seven months ago, Nikita Khrushchev was bounced as boss of the Soviet Union for such character flaws as "phrasemongering." There hasn't been a phrase mongered or a shoe banged within the Kremlin's henna walls since. Where flamboyant Nikita rarely made an unpublicized move, his successors, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, go about their business so self-effacingly that days go by without the slightest mention of them in the Soviet press...
...most of Cairo remains the same: close, crowded and cacophonous with hard-pressed auto horns. In Imbaba, on the west bank of the Nile, camels streaked with henna still plod unknowingly toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign...