Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such goings-on make it obvious that these men have learned well from a President who uses pancake makeup to cover up his five o'clock shadow. But pancake makeup failed to do the trick in the Watergate affair...
...month after Oui's debut, a former computer-company president named Ronald Fenton introduced Gallery, with Trial Lawyer F. Lee Bailey as a minority partner and celebrity publisher (he has since departed). Slavishly imitative of Playboy typography, makeup and design. Gallery has been in editorial trouble from the start-and is now rumored to have equally serious financial problems. Even so, Fenton claims monthly sales of over 1,000,000 -up from 340,000 for the first issue...
...Some altered their lives drastically in order to present a new self-image--changing sex, tattooing a whole body, becoming a human pin cushion with sharp needles jabbed through cheeks, lips, and neck. Others hide deep beneath layers of sequinned veils, Halloween masks, garish sunglasses, or gobs of heavy makeup. Arbus's titles pinpoint exactly the accoutrements used to buttress egos--"A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, New York City, 1966;" "Blond girl with shiny lipstick, New York City, 1963;" "A woman with pearl necklace and earrings, New York City...
...with gusto, exuding an earthiness and nervous energy that sometimes evoke comparisons with Lyndon Johnson. He is a natty dresser, tending to dark suits for day and blue suede jackets for informal wear. He can also be vain and demanding; he is the only Soviet leader to wear TV makeup. "He has a keen eye for that little red light on the TV camera," observes a U.S. official...
...author handles all this with great credibility, tact and humor. But Elizabeth is more than a fleshed out case history because she has a strong character. For whatever reason, self-pity and the view that everyone is a victim, are not part of her makeup. Trying to be normal is very hard work. Elizabeth winds up with the philosophical and moral equivalent of dishpan hands. But she is not one to disguise expensively acquired truth under some perfumed, feminizing unguent...