Word: makeups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Angeles TV studio last week, a pretty blonde actress faced the cameras for a special kind of screen test. Looking at her image, a panel of cosmetics experts gave their verdict: her makeup was perfect. After a solid year of experiment, a makeup had been invented that looked natural before the glaring new eye of color TV. The inventor: Hollywood's Max Factor & Co., whose concern with improving human looks before both cameras and kitchen stoves has made its name synonymous with glamour all over the world...
...silent sirens wore only two kinds of powder-white and flesh-colored-both as pasty as dough. Factor developed new. softer powder shades, more complimentary rouge tones, and an easily applied foundation grease. Soon such stars as Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford and Clara Bow were wearing Factor makeup off the movie lots, and U.S. women, who had previously thought that any makeup made them look "fast," started clamoring for the natural-looking powder and rouge. When Jean Harlow suddenly became a platinum blonde, Max Factor was ready with the bleach to help thousands follow suit...
...their emotional makeup, Dr. Dunbar reported: "Centenarians show little tendency toward elation or depression, but they are optimists according to the definition, 'one who believes the future to be still uncertain' . . . They show little need to dominate. They are willing to live and let live. They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.' They are receptive to change . . . and often talk as though they expect to be around for many years...
...peculiar attributes of character The virtue in a free play of ideas is that it is creative, that it produces conceptions-technical or otherwise-that are new and valuable. But such conceptions, because new, are unconventional, and the mind able to discover them must have in its makeup at least some disregard for conventions and restrictions. Such disregard leads to peculiarities. Dr. Oppenheimer is a brilliant...
...makeup was handled by Specialist Syd Simons, who each day spent an hour and five Max Factor bases on Amy. He shadowed the sides of her nose ("That's not to say there's anything wrong with her nose, but we didn't want it to broaden under the bright, flat light"); shaded her cheeks to "minimize the puffiness" and darkened her neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they...