Word: lipsticking
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Among the lies I could not endure was me. My wife Sally shared my sentiments, and one day, when I committed my ultimate indiscretion (other husbands bring home lipstick on their collars; I brought home my secretary), I found the apartment empty. No books, no furniture, no Sally. No future...
...Year's Eve, the white-clad throngs gather on Brazil's beaches after dark, more than a million people in Rio alone. They bear worldly offerings-lipstick, combs, jewelry, perfume, mirrors, flowers-to give to a vain, beauteous sea goddess. Called lemanjá, she is one of the pantheon worshiped by the various devotees of the pagan cults known as Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomble, or-to its detractors-as Macumba...
...awareness of each individual's complicity in the war. Jock, a minister from the Berkeley Free Church, described coming back from downtown Dayton the evening of the destruction of Hiroshima: "I don't know whether our hands were covered with blood, but our faces were covered with lipstick...
...took place at The Tavern on the Green. Like an army of extras for a Fellini movie, the guests turned out to nibble at hams decorated to resemble Indonesian masks, and to dance until 4 a.m. to live rock. Transvestites right out of The Damned, complete with dark red lipstick and 1930s feather boas, shouldered their way slinkily past matrons from Westchester. One unidentified chap wore a beige net jumpsuit with nothing on underneath, and a woman in gray velvet knickers pulled her off-the-shoulder blouse well below her bosom, while photographers immortalized the view...
...rush toward the "more sophisticated" look. Longer skirts, heavier fabrics and the once again popular basic black demand an accenting feature, and this season it will be a colorful face. No firm seems more confident of that trend than London's Biba Cosmetics, which already is selling lipsticks in Prune and Magenta shades. This fall, Biba will add to its lipstick line two colors that are bound to make men happy to see red: Matisse Green and Royal Blue...