Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business that requires little capital to enter but plenty of moxie to survive in. An entrepreneur with creative flair can still rise fast, though that is getting harder all the time, and an established company can go downhill with blinding speed after the founding genius dies (Helena Rubinstein and Max Factor have been absorbed by conglomerates, and are in varying degrees of trouble now). Through all the turmoil, a few cosmetics firms have catered to the narcissistic tastes of the "me generation" skillfully enough to keep growing rapidly; and one, Revlon, Inc., has developed into a General Motors of beauty...
Successful as the company has been, the market is so mercurial that no cosmetics firm can ever really be safe; a bad mistake can be ruinous. A classic example is Max Factor's "Just Call Me Maxi" fragrance, introduced last year to compete with Charlie. It came about four years too late, as taste was at the point of switching back to romance and mystery, and bombed so badly that Factor plunged deep into the red; the debacle is widely believed to have cost President Sam Kalish, a Revlon alumnus...
...priced field, Avon still holds a lead, though Revlon has been catching up. In the rush to sign up big-name clothes designers to put their names on perfumes, other firms have been quite as aggressive as Revlon. Revlon bagged Bill Blass, but Norton Simon Inc., parent company of Max Factor, got Halston, and Helena Rubinstein took Anne Klein. Calvin Klein has built up a big business operating...
David Levine is the best-known political and literary caricaturist since Max Beerbohm. His cartoon of Lyndon Johnson's gall bladder scar in the shape of Viet Nam is a classic, and it is impossible to see a picture of Kafka, Mailer or Proust without remembering the artist's caustic lines. But there is another, gentler Levine: a water-colorist of enormous delicacy and control. The Arts of David Levine (Knopf; 205 pages; $25) celebrates both with generous samples of serious portraiture, beach scenes and parodic sketches that recall the nervous poignance of Daumier and fully justify John...
Between 1912 and 1920, De Chirico produced a series of images?his pittura metafisica, or metaphysical painting?that altered the history of modernism. His empty colonnades and squares, populated by statues and shadows, exerted a vast influence on the growth of a specifically surrealist art. Max Ernst, René Magritte and Salvador Dali all paid homage to the liberating power of early De Chirico. He seemed to have made the actions of the dreaming mind more accessible, vivid and poignant than any other painter. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he explained, "it must pass quite beyond...