Word: lipsticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immortal in Lipstick. Cleaning up is not easy, either. Only this spring has the Park Service figured out how to cope with the problem of Box Canyon. Box Canyon, in Mount Rainier National Park, contains such a remarkable example of glacial action that in 1957 the park ran a blacktop trail into the canyon and put up a marker calling attention to the phenomenon...
Also being tested in national park rest rooms is a new gravel-impregnated wall paint, designed to break a lipstick, crayon or pencil at the first stroke. But such anti-lipstick measures are useless against the girls who like to add their smears to ancient Indian carvings in rock so porous that the lipstick sinks in and becomes indelible...
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...