Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assignment proved to be alluring. Raffety splashed on dozens of perfumes, smeared herself with lotions and creams and spread on a rainbow of lipsticks and eye shadows. To prepare for her first interview with the president of Revlon, she visited a midtown Manhattan skin-care salon and underwent a one-hour facial that included a massage, a seaweed mask and a herbal-tea steaming. She topped off the treatment with a professional makeup job. "A session like that one can change your whole feeling about the world," says Raffety...
...Patrick Steptoe, who with Physiologist Robert Edwards was laboratory godfather of the world's first test-tube baby. The reason: the two had yet to provide adequate details of their achievement. Last week, however, the New York Fertility Research Foundation honored Steptoe for that very achievement. At a Manhattan press conference, Steptoe labeled the Barren Foundation's action "the most utterly disgraceful exhibition of bad manners I've ever come across in the scientific world...
Seductive beauty and ageless craftsmanship account largely for the drawing power of Tut's treasures. "They are so fresh they kind of wipe out time," says Thomas Moving, who as former head of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum organized the show and has written the best-selling Tutankhamun: The Untold Story (Simon and Schuster; $12.95). Although many of the exhibit's 55 pieces are gold, Hoving maintains that the value of the collection is "not a critical part of its popularity." (Asked how much it is worth, he replies airily: "$416,872,417.68, plus green stamps...
Still, the industry's hold on its customers is secure, and one has only to prowl the stores to find out why. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, a blue-jeaned young woman sat at the counter being made up by a saleswoman while her husband watched eagerly. She hesitated at first when the bill for her face makeup?eye shadow, foundation, mascara, liners, lip pencils?came to $42. But she gave in and paid when her husband murmured, "You really look great, honey." Then he turned to the salesgirl and asked, "Isn't she pretty...
...restaurant in Manhattan, at which, another Revlon executive recalls, the clatter of dishes kept drowning out Revson's words, and Revson could scarcely fathom Bergerac's accent; neither understood much of what the other said. Bergerac remembers asking Revson at another meeting: "Why do you want somebody like me? I have been associated for a long time with basically technical products, so I know a fair amount about factories, marketing and technical engineering, but ..." Revson's reply: "I know all that, but you have one thing this company needs. You know how to make money...