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Word: mascara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least an eyelash, in the running mascara battle between industry leaders Maybelline and Noxell, maker of the Cover Girl brand. The rivals are locked in a legal dispute over Noxell's claim that its new Cover Girl Clean Lash mascara is waterproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Eyelashes At 20 Paces | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...knee, flexed feet and palms, the effect was of marionettes courting each other with jerky movements. Then, all of a sudden, I realized that my dancing partner wasn't a woman at all, he was just wearing what we think of as woman's makeup: eye shadow, lipstick and mascara...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Harvard Traveler's Seven Burmese Days | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

...keep putting her mascara back on because she kept crying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississippi: Visiting Around | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld, but he ends up wearing punk costumes and too much mascara. The picture in turn is plastered over with a heavy layer of intellectual pancake. It is all pretense and portent up to a wild shoot-out at the end, wittily imagined, cunningly staged. But not, perhaps, quite enough of a reward for those who wait around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spring-Cleaning Rummage Sale | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures this seven-year manic-depressive itch is a mystery even to those who have survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Pains Pretty in Pink | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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