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Word: makeups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monologue lasting the better part of two hours, she rants, raves, bullies, teases, threatens, roars and talks scatologically, concupiscently and incessantly. She also primps, daubs on garish makeup, strips off her blouse and carts loads of books to her desk only to hurl them irascibly about the room. What does all the sound and fury signify? Virtually nothing, except to prove that Parsons has the stamina of a deckhand and an awesome range of acting skills visibly being laid waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Ms. Himmler | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...students to get medical excuses to miss their spring finals," William Edwards, a proctor for the exams, said yesterday, adding that "even though the University Health Services are supposed to have come down on illness abusers, the new policy of the Ad Board is to grant each student one makeup exam gratis, if the student claims he misread the scheduling times...

Author: By Bruce E. Ellerin, | Title: Make-Up Testing Begins | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

Cinderella's coach turned into a pumpkin-and Jonathan Winters' head has now suffered the same fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks (ABC and CBS) morbidly return to the scene of the crime this fall and mimic its actuality, with docudramas on Lee Harvey Oswald. Because people are more apt to spot a poor job of makeup than a perversion of the facts, historians worry about television's lopsided history lessons. Last year's Truman at Potsdam made out that his primary motive in dropping the A-bomb on Japan was not to end the war. In Truman's "own" words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing with the Facts | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Freshman Week itself never really changes, and the masses of people milling in and around Weld Saturday night didn't look much different from the same crowd two years ago. The women wore more makeup, it seemed (and of course there were more of them), and the men seemed to have shorter hair, but the topics of conversation remained the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That Velveeta-Like Sameness | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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