Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think of every Baby Tap-A-Tune piano or Makeup Pretty Angelica picked by the yellow-capped pickers, packed by the blue-hatted packers and loaded by the gray-brimmed loaders at this 100,000-sq.-ft. eToys warehouse in Commerce, Calif., as another round fired in the retail-vs.-e-tail battle. Christmas is always war in the toy industry, and nowhere more so this year than online, where pure e-tailers like eToys are for the first time fighting on several fronts...
...that time was money--a notion that led to the first so-called efficiency experts in the 1920s--the idea of making every second count began to spread through society. Result: efficiency became an American virtue. Today every conceivable business is open around the clock; we multitask frantically, applying makeup or talking on the phone while driving; we cram our kids' lives with team sports and lessons. Children don't play anymore: they schedule play dates. "We are," says author Gleick, "driven by time...
Indeed, tea has become so popular that it's growing beyond the pot and showing up in everything from cosmetics to candles. Avon has a supersize tea bag for the tub; Kiehl's uses it in makeup, Clairol in hair mousse. The hipster set is buying Red Flower candle and tea sets. In August, Elizabeth Arden launched its Green Tea fragrance and body line. Upscale apothecaries stock Tea Thymes home and bath products, while mass-market drugstores are moving Coty's hit, Healing Garden's green-tea line...
...keep going. I owed it to the audience and the company to carry on," he says. Weil stayed for another 30 minutes, which included the show-stopping, spangled finale. After the final curtain call and standing ovation, the assistant director rushed Weil, still in full costume and stage makeup, to University Health Services, where doctors washed away his foundation and blush to clean the "Y-shaped laceration" above his left eyebrow. Because of the nature of the injury, they then had to send him to Beth Israel Hospital, where doctors gave him eight stitches. Ever the consummate actor, Weil...
There's room for all in today's democracy of beauty. Carrying a shopping basket with the trademark Sephora squiggle, Elisa Lee totes around flame-colored nail-polish remover by Tony & Tina. The week before, she bought Decleor makeup remover. She confesses, "I like the instant-gratification thing...