Word: lipsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pittston is said to have offered Mearl Corp., which transforms fish scales into raw materials for shirt buttons and lipstick, as much as $7 million for a key 35-acre plot...
...intermission he came out to the lobby--lipstick, stockings, the whole thing. It wasn't that he looked like a woman, at least I don't think that was it. It just seemed wrong; all the others amused me, but Sanbord [her boyfriend] repulsed me. He was too drunk to notice my reaction, and nuzzled up against me. It scared hell out of me, and I'll never forget...
...production expenses. Prices of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer, which use natural gas as a raw material, jumped by 30% after price controls were lifted. Textile producers also face limited production because 65% of their fibers are synthetics derived from oil. Shortages may also arise in such disparate items as lipstick, nylon stockings, phonograph records, toys, garbage bags, hair curlers and innumerable other products that use petrochemicals...
...anecdote is marked by a group of nudes. The model was a teenage girl named Siri Erickson, daughter of one of Wyeth's Finnish neighbors. "She had this immense vitality," says Wyeth. "I liked that directness. She's part of the country, planted in it, absolutely unselfconscious. Lipstick never entered her mind." He met her shortly after his favorite woman model (or character), Christina Olson, died. "Siri seemed like a bridge to me, or a new cycle; life coming out of death." The resulting pictures, done between 1968 and 1972, are among the solidest and least theatrical...
...nights. So they sang. in Church, and conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album plus TV. This all may be true, if "Texas Woman Blues" is any indication, it is. Mott the Hoople. Saturday, August...