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...tapes has not exactly advanced the video art form. Some use a celebrity host to liven up a dry presentation; more often an anonymous lecturer is aided only by crude graphics or amateurish dramatizations. Attempts to make the material more "visual" are frequently awkward. First Aid: The Video Kit, produced by the American Red Cross and CBS/ Fox Video, buries its valuable information amid hokey sketches in which two couples are instructed in proper first-aid techniques by a helpful neighbor...
...from jojoba or wheat-germ oil to elastin or collagen, and most have no added fragrance. Lauder's top-shelf stuff includes Men's Skin Repair Complex ($35 for .87 oz.), which promises to produce younger-looking skin. Interface offers a beefy $44, four-product Work-Out Kit, including an eight-page illustrated brochure on when and how to apply such items as the Gripper tightening mask (twice a week) and PCA Day Moisturizer (outward strokes each morning and evening). A less costly label, Skin Control Systems, is co-owned by ageless TV Personality Dick Clark...
...size since last year. Customers are crowding a silver-gray men's skin-care counter in Chicago's Marshall Field for shaving tips by white-smocked saleswomen. Estee Lauder, which already had the Clinique and Aramis labels, this year added Lauder for Men. A $20 sampler kit of the new Lauder line sold out in less than a week at Bullock's in Los Angeles. Says Baxter Finley, who for two decades has marketed his Baxter of California men's line: "In the last four years everyone and his dog is into skin care...
...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...
...students objected to a scene in which the hero, Michael, and his talking car, Kit, called two Chinese hoodlums "overgrown beansprouts" and "eggroll brothers". They requested that NBC send them an apology and remove the episode from...