Word: lipsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known around the world, and are popular with women from the mass of Walgreens on up to the class of Saks Fifth Avenue. Long before Revson died of cancer last week at 68, Revlon had become the largest U.S. over-the-counter retailer (1974 sales: $606 million) of lipstick, nail polish and potions that women use to make themselves beautiful...
...that Lachman had developed. Initially, they sold to beauty parlors, which were then enjoying a boom because of the popularity of the permanent wave. By 1941, Revlon was selling to nearly all the nation's estimated 100,000 beauty salons. Before long, the company also was offering women lipstick and nail polish that matched-for "matching lips and fingertips," as one famous ad slogan proclaimed...
...Western-influenced life-style of Saigon has become a target of Communist ire. Blue jeans, nail polish, lipstick and miniskirts have been condemned as vestiges of the defeated capitalist society. Young men have been pressured to trim their long hair, while girls have been urged to wear "clothes that are simple and not stimulating." As a result, more Saigon women these days are wearing the traditional slit-skirt ao-dai, which, ironically, many Westerners regarded as extremely stimulating indeed...
...castle ruled by a bisexual drag queen named Dr. Frank 'N' Furter. In his lab, the evil doctor, leeringly played by Tim Curry, has fashioned a blond centerfold playmate, Rocky (Kim Milford), who is sort of male. Frank wears torn black mesh stockings, black garters and black lipstick. Rocky is clad in something smaller than swim trunks and larger than a jock strap. He tenses his torso and biceps like an old Charles Atlas ad plugging rock muscularity...
...Bring on the broads!" The request was more emphatic this time, as if the men sensed the inexperience of their prey. Their two lady friends, with let-out hems and lipstick on their teeth, shrieked their approval...