Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addictive. Most of those who use it must continue their new, though less destructive habit indefinitely. While less painful than heroin withdrawal, kicking methadone can take longer. For most patients, the result is hardly worth the effort. A long-term heroin habit so alters the body's chemical makeup that life without opiates is virtually impossible. Therefore most addicts who give up methadone quickly return to heroin. Methadone generally works well for mature addicts, some as old as 85, whose tolerance for heroin is often so great that the drug must be taken more to avoid pain than...
...exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught me in the second grade. No amount of makeup could make Albert Finney look like that nun, and I guess he wasn't perfectionist enough to go on a starvation diet. The second problem is that Finney can't sing. He may sing well enough in his normal voice, but he can't even manage the Rex Harrison method of speaking...
...They feel sophisticated, unique and exquisite. But they live in contrasting worlds. Their heads are back in the paese, the old home town. Their feet and one or two other parts are in the modern world. But the only really modern things about these women are their boots, their makeup and false eyelashes...
...case it's outward appearance you're concerned with, I'm sure if you look with an open mind you'll find many Lesley girls free from any signs of makeup and other superficial boy traps. Then if you take the time to treat her like a person, you'll discover she also has a mind...
...company is now expanding into a potentially rich new area. Aiming to capitalize on the swiftly growing demand for black cosmetics, Johnson Products has begun test-marketing a low-priced line of liquid makeup, face powder and skin cleaner. The items, formulated to complement black skin tones, come in shades of browns, tans and reds. "Our future growth will depend on how well we do in cosmetics," says Johnson, 43. Until recently, white-owned companies virtually ignored the demand for black cosmetics, and most of the black firms in the field are still small and regional. With his company...