Word: messing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after that. Side effects, which usually last two to six weeks, include skin irritation, scaling and peeling. Dermatologists caution against overdoing it. One woman, convinced that more is better, began slathering it on six times a day. Says Kurtin: "When she came in after a week, she was a mess...
...these are nothing compared with the extremes in him, in brave, dumb Captain Midlife, jogging with the kids, exhaling frost; or out on the town, red-mufflered to the eyes, a Scotch ad beaming with conventional merriment. Inside his aching, brooding head, a mess of city-dump proportions. He crouches in the mind's attic like one of those soldiers who are never told that the war is over, and reads that Michael Korda, a modern adviser on how to live, says that by the time one reaches one's 40s, all emotional and professional problems should be settled...
Still, one wishes that Madison Avenue would leave the best oldies alone. No Marvin. No Aretha. Frankie Avalon, sure, but no Elvis Presley. Gerry and the Pacemakers, please, but don't mess with the Crystals or the Drifters. But as Buddy Holly sang, "That...
...Dutch, RCA by the West Germans and Capitol by the British.) Yet in a sense, CBS Records is only passing from one revered entrepreneur, Paley, to another, Akio Morita, who is responsible for the Walkman and other breakthroughs. Morita, who favors classical music, seems determined not to mess up the good beat at CBS. His company has offered a package of some $20 million in compensation to persuade CBS Records' bearded, brassy chief, Walter Yetnikoff, 54, to stay in his job for several more years. The sale no doubt contains some irony for Springsteen, whose songs have identified strongly with...
...intervention, family members, friends and co-workers directly confront the alcoholic to shatter his carefully nurtured self-delusions. Beforehand they meet with a specially trained counselor (the fee: $500 to $750) to rehearse. In the actual confrontation, the alcoholic is presented with a tough but sympathetic portrayal of the mess he is in and is urged to accept prearranged admission to a treatment center, often on the same day. Says Carol Remboldt, publications director at Johnson's institute in Minnesota: "Intervention allows a tiny aperture to be poked in the wall of an alcoholic...