Word: lipstick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...States: but what's happening here is a mystery to me." He drifts through the Havana streets under the "diarrhea of our tropical sun," and picks up amenable girls such as Elena, who has decided opinions. She says the "American smell" is the "smell of nylons, toothpaste, lipstick, deodorant, detergent and stuff like that. Americans have a peculiar smell and Russians stink...
...campaign has already reached beyond hemlines. Style-conscious mobs have ripped off wigs and lopped off artificially straightened hair when they have cornered Zambian girls who have tried to Westernize their locks. Users of skin-lightening creams have had their faces plastered with mud; bright lipstick has been forcibly removed with sandpaper. "We are determined to wipe out this sort of thing," explains one U.N.I.P. youth official...
...exploders in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Loaded with oil and bone, the eight-inch fish is about as welcome at a dining table as last Friday's halibut. Still, it is avidly sought by commercial fishermen because its oil is used in everything from lipstick to paint, and its meat and bones can be ground into high-protein animal feed...
...Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops...
...still cannot be estimated. The effect of the heating oil, for example, cannot be predicted until its chemical components are completely determined. Unlike American heating oils, this oil is of an inferior grade; it is black, thick, and totally unrefined. Restorers have had considerable experience with the oils from lipstick which tourists often use to smear their initials on the major monuments. Lipstick oils, they have found, sink into the porous surface of the stone and are very difficult to remove. But no one has had any experience with the effect of this crude heating oil on paper, panels, canvas...