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Despite their illegality, private markets are readily visible in Moscow and other Soviet cities. The gathering place for Moscow apartment hunters is the subway stop on Leningradsky Prospekt. The place to buy women's goods, such as lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge...
...Chanel advertisement for lipstick is a particularly blatant example of the publicity exploitative, sexist advertising practices that make profits by perpetuating sexually submissive images of women. Chanel, an international corporation, helps set standards for female perfection, nationally and internationally. The priority is global profit at the expense of an enlightened world attitude toward women. The public female ideal, which becomes internalized as private ideal as well, to be emulated is a sexually submissive one. The healthy development of women as individuals and the healthy development of society as a cooperative community of equals will continue to be stunted so long...
...sexist. There are two reasons why it is sexist. First, women are objectified in order to sell products. Second, implicit in the Chanel ad is not only that women must use cosmetic products to be sexually appealing, but that they must also perform the appropriate acts. The lipstick perched between lip-sticked lips symbolically links the two ideas of sex appeal and of unequal sexual (and other) status. The cultural norm of female beauty allows women to be victimized by ads linking beauty with sexual service; ideals of male attractiveness are not ordinarily publicized as contingent upon sexual service...
...capital custom: the turn-of-the-year list of what's In and what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots...
...that final scene, both realize the mysterious potency of this enigmatic decade. Susan buttons into her designer suit, the one with the tweed shirt, that reaches just to the top of her boots. She dashes on bold lipstick, a bottled scent, and jewelry she would have laughed at on that Bali beach. She smiles, says goodbye, calls Paul "Babe" one final time and exits to join her new lover for dinner. The decade has killed marriage, turned romance into a business and banished communication between lovers from the bedroom...