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Sturges' mother was a much-married dilettante who befriended Theda Bara, Aleister Crowley and Isadora Duncan. While working for his mother's cosmetics firm, Preston invented a kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim...
...either of you carry lipstick?" he asks. His lips are chapped...
...estimates that slightly more than half of the women with their dark lipstick and mascara-ed eyes are actually going to parties, a figure that is backed up by several other women...
...sees the difficulty in broader terms. "Rock 'n' roll has just become a new form of Disneyland," he says. "The whole thing has got mythologized to the point where it's just a bunch of rubbish." Greil Marcus, who writes formidably on popular and radical culture (the recent Lipstick Traces), talks about the "suicidal nostalgia" surrounding a lot of contemporary music: "People have been sold a bill of goods about the '60s, as if it were some kind of social Golden Age, when there was no Viet Nam, no social conflict. There weren't any Negroes, nothing bad happened...
...issues favored by relatively conservative investors. Broader market indexes including Standard & Poor's 500 and the Wilshire 5,000 had already reached all-time record levels by early August. Says Justin Mamis, chief strategist for the investment firm Cowen & Co.: "All the Dow can do now is put the lipstick on." The allure of stocks is broadening rapidly as more and more investors join the stampede, which is demonstrated by the big increase in the market's volume. The average daily number of shares traded on the N.Y.S.E. was about 200 million last week, in contrast to a daily average...