Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wholesale use of cosmetics has posed new problems. Last week FDA scientists and lab technicians were busy rubbing salves containing rouge, mascara, eye shadow and pancake makeup on shaved areas of rabbits or guinea pigs to test for irritating effects. The neotoxic age has brought DDT and still more lethal sprays, some of which stay on fruits and vegetables all the way to the dinner table. FDA permits only the minutest residues, has devised tests that will detect less than a billionth of an ounce of pesticide...
...that the widow fling herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Enlightened British rule put a legal end to the practice of suttee (widow suicide), but the widow's lot has remained a poor one. Under Hindu laws, widows are not permitted to wear jewelry, bright clothing, makeup. They cannot attend wedding or birthday celebrations. Under strict laws of inheritance dating back 3,000 years, a Hindu's property is strictly entailed, passing from father to son over the generations and bypassing the women entirely. If a Hindu widow's son or grandson proves ungenerous...
...traveling with Marilyn," Goodman writes, in recollection of an interview that took place in a chartered plane en route to Sun Valley. For this occasion, Marilyn wore what she calls her "disguise." This consisted of a Venetian gondolier's brown straw hat with white band, smoked glasses, no makeup at all, a man's heavy black sweater, grey striped trousers, high heels and a floor-length mink coat...
...such a hurry." The truth is that Marilyn has been so terrified of failure during most of her life that she has often had to screw up her courage for the slightest encounter with the world. Before the least important interview she will put on her makeup five or six times before she is satisfied with her looks. "And then, too," a friend points out, "when she is late she feels guilty, and since she has always felt guilty she feels comfortable that way. It is easier for Marilyn to take guilt than responsibility...
...probably can be. In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Marilyn showed her talent for comedy. In Bits Stop she has a chance to show what she can do with the first part she has ever played that is any deeper than her makeup. In Sleeping Prince she will have to hold the screen against Sir Laurence Olivier, one of the most accomplished actors of the English-speaking world. Next winter, it was reported last week, Marilyn will tackle Aristophanes' Lysistrata on TV, and she is deadly determined that some day she will play Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov...