Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constant element rather than a shocking intrusion on a black's existence. As such, its impact is all the more terrible. Finally, Cicely Tyson, whose muted fury was the driving force in Sounder, plays Miss Jane. Once again she demonstrates (even when handicapped by an old-age makeup that is literally too thick to believe) that she is a subtly skilled actress who can convey not just the history of a character in a gesture or an inflection, but an entire century's cruelty and bravery as well...
During their hormone therapy, patients are asked to adopt the characteristics of their new gender. Transexual men don dresses, wear makeup, live and work as women. Transexual women wear men's clothes and live as men. After a year, if doctors judge the adjustment to new life-styles a success, surgery is performed...
...keep a sharp eye on fashion and retailing changes, and even try to anticipate them. "We have to know down to the second the latest happening," explains Bernard Robbins, president of Manhattan's Herzberg-Robbins. "After all, we want to reflect the newest look, including hair styles and makeup." When black pride swelled in the early '60s, mannequin makers were ready with black models. More recently, they have created "the ethnic look": dummies with Mexican, Eurasian or Oriental features. Some mannequin makers have picked up the nostalgia craze and created Marilyn Monroe models. "We've made...
...attempt to take Papillon with entire seriousness. Prison life is more picturesque than genuinely horrifying, and the escapes into the world outside are seen through a National Geographic lens brightly. Everywhere squalor seems to have been painted on carefully but obviously, like McQueen's old man's makeup at the end of the picture...
...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...