Word: lipsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Sue Raffety was attending high school in Blackwell, Okla., in the 1950s, she and her classmates wore heavily caked makeup and ruby-red lipstick. "It looked like hell," recalls Raffety, "and hurt our skin. At the time, however, we thought we were glamorous." Like many women, Raffety has done, well, an about-face on cosmetology, and today she prizes those products that help foster a fresh, natural appearance. As the senior reporter-researcher in the Economy and Business section, Raffety suggested and worked on this week's cover story about one of the cosmetics industry's largest...
...look of the career woman, by using a dozen shades and tints, from eye liner to translucent lip gloss, all supposed to make her appear as if she were wearing no makeup at all. Then, in the evening, she can switch to smoky mauve eye shadow and dark red lipstick touched with midnight blue, calculated to give her a mysterious aura that will stand out under disco lights and smite her dancing partners with an advanced case of Saturday Night Fever...
...fluently in five languages, then plunged into their midst to shake outstretched hands. For Vatican and Italian police, the public appearances were a security nightmare. For officials of the papal household, they were also somewhat of an embarrassment: the Pope's white cassock sleeve cuffs sometimes became covered with lipstick marks...
...describe it, you'll have to hear it. And to symbolize his uniqueness, we're holding this gig at unique places around the country--you know, places you wouldn't expect to hold rock'n'roll promos," his starry-eyed press agent said from behind her intense lipstick and boots up to here...
Right from the start, Isabel admits the "murderous" influence of her father as readily as she acknowledges the importance of her upbringing in an oppressive Catholic subculture. In the course of Final Payments, Isabel, always tempted by sweets, lipstick, and high heels, reacts ambivalently to both influences. She is simultaneously sarcastic and sympathetic, resentful and grateful...