Word: lipsticked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balance the budget within five years or face automatic cuts. "What % this bill does is put the fat in the fire," declared Gramm. "It forces decisions." Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, however, likened Congressmen voting for the bill to "the person who writes on the bathroom mirror in lipstick, 'Stop me before I kill again...
...than 200 reporters, cameramen and technicians crowded into the East Room on an otherwise perfectly lovely night. Eight women wore red dresses to gain a minute advantage in the desperate bid for recognition by the President. Another wore a red-white-and- blue stocking cap set off with blue lipstick. A few male contenders looked suspiciously as if they had blow-dried their hair and patted on a bit of makeup. The U.P.I.'s veteran Helen Thomas blinded them all in a frock with patches of blue, orange, raspberry and green. "We'd better get a fire extinguisher," said Press...
Revlon, the cosmetics giant, responded to a hostile takeover bid last week by putting on its war paint. The company's extra touch was a repellent that could be termed poison lipstick. Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based supermarket chain, offered $1.8 billion for Revlon, or $47.50 per share. Declaring that the company was not for sale, Revlon's chairman, Michel Bergerac, and its board of directors adopted a variation on the so-called poison pill defense, in which the takeover target makes itself too financially painful to consume. In Revlon's case, the company would allow all shareholders except...
...last December's Playmate of the Month, Doris Newman, 73, felt only pride. After all, it was Granny Newman who had encouraged Velez to bare her all for the magazine's talent scouts when they showed up in Miami two years ago. "If you showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies," as Velez says, meaning the $100,000 and Toyota MR2 she will get this week for winning the nod as 1985 Playmate of the Year...
...weight.) Instead, the real point is to raise a toast to the triumph of conservation in the country, particularly among smart young people who know how to have a good time. At various points in the book Hart comes to the defense of, "women who [wear] bras, skirts and lipstick" in contrast to the smelly let-it-all-hang-out liberals chanting on Dartmouth green. Or he'll tell us that athletes, who have "experienced intensity the transitory nature of the world," are profoundly deeper human beings than are academics...