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Centerfield was devoted to face-painting where one customer, after having his jowls suitably bedecked in white pancake makeup, red stripes, and blue mascara, asked timidly if he could "work on his wife." No one seemed to mind...
...with its talent but with its target. Satire is never any stronger than the host it feeds upon; by lampooning an overdone era, the creators of the film have made Millie an aging flapper, hoofing and puffing with jazz and razzmatazz, pretty and polished. But beneath the powder, the mascara and the bee-stung lips, she is wan and rather tired...
...Mascara Runs. Though food prices are as much as 20% higher, most brands are still on store shelves. Costs of such luxury items as chocolate have skyrocketed, and the only mascara available runs down the ladies' faces. But signs of austerity are few, and business in downtown Salisbury is brisk. Unable to buy from Britain and other Commonwealth countries, Rhodesia has simply turned to friendly South Africa instead. Since Prime Minister Wilson cannot prevent South Africa from selling oil to Rhodesia, Smith gets all he needs to keep the economy going...
...years, "Mrs. Graham," as she preferred to call herself,* began to market creams and lotions separately, added perfumes, and in 1915 dared to introduce New York to the mascara and eye shadow that she imported from France. In time, her cosmetics, some 300 varieties of which are sold today in 44 countries from South Africa to Tibet, became primarily responsible for a gross income estimated at well over $15 million a year; but it was in her salons, invariably marked by a red entrance door, that she created the basic Arden mystique by militantly advertising that "every woman...
Schmid went to bizarre lengths to build his image. He added 3 in. to his meager (5 ft. 3 in.) frame by stuffing rags and folded tin cans into his black leather boots. He dyed his hair raven black, wore pancake makeup, pale cream lipstick and mascara. As for the cash, which he got in a generous weekly dole from his mother, Schmid bragged to the boys that it came from smuggling cars into Mexico, to the girls that it came from women whom he had taught "100 ways to make love...