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...Paris for a chat with Andre Malraux. On her current junket, she touched down in Denmark, Iceland and then London, where the earl in question was the music-loving Earl of Harewood. For the dinner, Katya finally chose that staple of feminine fashion, "the little black dress" (mascara, no lipstick or jewels). "Our ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never diet. I eat everything." With that, she flew back to Moscow, where the knowing party climbers hang on her every word, explaining...
...development. Her brightly painted toes flicker through the nimble measures of the Charleston; her wrists grow strong beneath the weight of jangling bracelets; her long thighs are shaped to glued-on toreador slacks. She carries blithely a large basket laden with spare sets of false eyelashes, spare bandannas, waterproof mascara, lipstick brushes, eyelid pencils, bobby pins, suntan oils, combs, tweezers, compacts, cigarettes, stray hairs left by the cat. Atop her head is a brimmed straw-hat pulled over a voile scarf tied babushka-style, and she turns on the world the blind stare of dark glasses. She strides along confidently...
Shirley has a way of forgetting all about herself, too. "When she saw Imitation of Life" recalls a friend, "she was moved to tears. Hours later, when she got home, she glanced in a mirror by accident and noticed her mascara streaked down her cheeks. She was upset because nobody had bothered to tell her, but most people would have looked in a mirror on purpose long before then...
...fond d'un regard que Von decouvre une ame," insisted the soulful pitchman for a mascara pencil...
When Joan was hired last January, a tropical spell hit Pan Am's Fifth Avenue office. It was those fuselage-hugging sheath dresses she wore. Those doe eyes. That platinum blonde hair. And all that Hollywood mascara. "Tone down your appearance," warned Pan Am. So Joan toned down the mascara and eye shadow, sacked her sheaths in favor of a white blouse and black skirt. But she drew the line at a suggestion to switch her hair color to a more businesslike strawberry blonde...