Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran's universities are women. The government-financed Women's Organization of Iran has set up day care centers, marriage counseling centers and classes to teach women to read and write. Women now do much of the farm work, form a substantial proportion of the skilled manual labor force and serve in the army and navy...
...cosmetologist goes to work, cleaning the skin with unscented makeup remover and lotion. Then a lubricant is applied with a small hot iron, which is a doll-sized version of the kitchen iron, to soften the pores. This "face ironing" is followed by a herbal or seaweed steam facial, manual and deep-pore cleansing, a tightening mask and a makeup consultation. More and more men are showing up in skin-treatment centers too: 10% of Arpel's customers and 20% of Klinger's are men, while both Aida Grey and the Beverly Hills Neiman-Marcus are about...
...more interested in getting a book that will not only be appreciated but even read multiple times. Then take this year's sure fire suggestion. Which is the same as last year's sure fire suggestion and the one the year before that: to wit, a sex manual. Now you may think these are prurient and dumb, or you might think they are useful. Either way, it makes a great joke under the tree...
Sometimes it seems that some ideal system of manners must be imprinted in the collective unconscious of the race; at any rate, men and women have been trying long enough to discover it. One of the earliest known books, the Instructions of Ptahhotep, was an Egyptian behavior manual written around 2350 B.C. (Among Ptahhotep's precepts: Never offend a self-made man, and "Be silent, for it is better than teftef flowers.") Ever since then, social thinkers have believed that in manners, even in the most frivolous gestures of a culture, they could detect its hidden tectonics and tendencies...
From Ptahhotep to Castiglione to Erasmus to Emily Post, the manners manual has been a permanent fixture of practical...