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...keep him in shape, or have his portrait painted in oils. There are clip-on diapers for parakeets, hairpieces and false eyelashes for poodles, snoods to keep bassets' ears out of the sterling-silver feeding bowl, bikinis, ski suits and sunglasses for vacationing types, earrings, mascara and nail polish in a dozen colors. On his birthday a pet can expect to receive blue or pink cards and summon his pals-on his own phone-for a birthday cake of liver with powdered-milk icing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Animal Farm | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...single sequin," says Jobriath between shows, when asked to describe his act. He is applying makeup in a Clairol Perfect Light Mirror. Blue eyeshadow. Maybelline mascara. Vermillion lipstick. Jobriath claims he only wears make-up for shows. "I do all this because it amuses me--it amuses me to come back here and bust my ass getting into these costumes. It keeps me busy. It makes me much more myself...

Author: By Michiko Kakitani, | Title: Glitter, Glitter, Toil and Titter | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

...grossly unfair to lump rock's wizard, Todd Rundgren, with such untalented transvestites as the New York Dolls, just because he wears brocade, sequins, mascara and rouge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1974 | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

GLITTER TRIPPERS. Glitter stars do not seem so much to have created their fandom as to have been created by it. The fastest-growing audience in rock dotes on the finery of such brocade, sequin, mascara-and rouge-wearing performers as Todd Rundgren, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Occasionally a glitter singer like England's bisexual David Bowie is actually good. Mostly, though, admits the Dolls' David Johansen, "the whole glitter trip is just jive." A concert can also be simply an excuse for youngsters to come out for a reasonably harmless masquerade party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Faces in the Crowd | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...spoof of pre-World War I manners, mores and dress, with a setting that suggested a hotel in a Feydeau comedy. There is a small army of standard farce characters, including a jealous husband, a languid vamp, a preening gigolo. Weighed down with a pound or so of mascara, Manola Asensio was a wonderfully deadpan, sultry vamp, but the farce- predictable bedroom mix-ups, a boop-a-doop beachside romp-is forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: An Expense of Sprirt | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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