Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learn to straighton up and fly right. While the poetry is consistently excellent, the four stories do not all show professional skill, but all provocatively give promise of better work. Lured by Dave Self's splendid cover and five tasteful sketches, the reader will be disappointed by the unimaginative makeup and by the promise of a second and maybe a third pointless article on the UN by Stephen Schwebel...
With several members abstaining from the second ballot and after discussion centering about the date and makeup of the line, the earlier decision was reversed...
...voters know what is going on in City Hall, but the peculiar makeup of the electorate forestalls any large scale action or indignation. The great middle class, always the backbone of reform movements, has deserted the city for the cleaner suburbs with attractive school systems and play space for its children. Left behind to vote in the metropolis is the Beacon Street Brahmin class, snowed under, as Lyons puts it, by the clannishness of the low income groups...
...makeup, especially, Grand-Guignol-eurs excel. Their piece de resistance is a boiled, partly skinned head (the actor is wrapped in a silk stocking and daubed with putty, sponge, cloth and "blood"). The theater has a secret recipe for blood; when the stuff cools it coagulates and makes scabs. Thrill-hungry customers in the small auditorium get a dividend when they overhear the hoarse backstage whisper: "Vite, Edmond! Warm up the blood...
...Manhattan, women were offered a new piece of boudoir equipment-a transparent, zippered hood which covered the entire head, looked like something designed to be worn in the rarefied atmosphere of the planet Venus. It was supposed to protect them from the horrors of "messy makeup" when they slipped their dresses...