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...woman who got married this summer got lots of Clinique make-up that she doesn’t use, so we had this brick of a shoebox loaded with lots of pink tubes,” he said...

Author: By Ivana V. Katic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Making Up Valentine’s Day | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

...might well admit the aspirant student I met here on his test scores, GPA and leadership roles. Yet his cultural background will not overtly receive the same pluses that await other minorities. Of course, an 18-year-old who has managed to work 80-hour harvest weeks, while doing make-up schoolwork and teaching himself Latin is usually preferable to yet another Stuyvesant grad in the eyes of Harvard admissions. Then again, anyone who has raised himself out of the gang culture of an inner city to get a 1500 SAT score would likely gain admission to Harvard, too. Both...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: A Balance of the Maps | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...photograph on the coffee table captures a perfect moment of joy. It is a Halloween night in the mid-'80s, and Ryan Adams, 11, is in full Kiss make-up, thrusting out his chin and sticking out his tongue like a tiny Gene Simmons. It's an image worth lingering over because in the here and now--early fall in his East Village apartment in New York City--Adams is doing a fair impression of an 11-year-old brat. We are supposed to be talking about his new album, Rock N Roll, but Adams has decided to chain-smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The No-Hit Wonder | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...Yorker. “I’m worried I came across as a tart,” says Kobritz. Kobritz’s image also wasn’t helped by the fact that the article concluded with Gorbachev’s assessment of her make-up preferences. “This makeup they put on!” [Gorbachev] exclaimed. “My lips almost got stuck to her cheek...

Author: By E.e. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gorby's Gone Wild | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

...opposite sex is not something you can do once a year on a Friday night. Not to say that donning that wig and shaving that hair isn’t a hard step—I know it is. But the whole point is that underneath the make-up, masculinity is still easily confirmed. You still know which bathroom to go to; you can walk down the street without fear of harassment because, although your skirt may be short, your voice is still low. Transgression on Drag Night might make you feel good, but it makes a mockery of trans...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Something to Shave About | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

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