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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 »

Maybelline contends that shower and swimming-pool tests of several hundred women conducted for it by a research laboratory showed that Clean Lash is not waterproof. Charging false advertising, Maybelline won a federal district court order halting shipments and ads for its rival's mascara. Last week Noxell persuaded an appeals court to issue a temporary stay of the lower court's order, and the company resumed its sales. Maybelline did not even blink before heading back to court for the next round...

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 »

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