Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot make," says Alaskan Ecologist Robert B. Weeden, "is to stay aloof from change." Wherever man has settled in the great land, he has left an ugly mark. Anchorage, rimmed on three sides by mountains, has air-pollution problems like those of Los Angeles. In Fairbanks, ice fogs mix with smoke and auto exhaust to produce a particularly noxious result, and the Chena River, which splits the city, is a sewer. In the desolate village of Eek (pop. 182), sewage disposal is impossible because the water table is practically level with the ground. The only flush toilet in town...
Though Vidal's Myra is one of the most amusing idealists in American fiction, the absolute obviously does not exist in literary or any other form. But the relative truth about Two Sisters is that it is mainly a put-on of the roman à clef, a teasing mix of characters that do and do not resemble real people. As always, what Vidal puts on is stylishly cut. Basically there is the "now" of his own voice and the "then" of the book's principal fictional creation, a journal written by Eric Van Damm, who was killed...
Receding Eyes. When a few black women began to use cosmetics, the lipsticks and makeup then available did not really work on black skins. Naomi Sims, a model, recalls having to mix her own even in the early '60s: "I used to add rouge and watercolor paint," she says. Model Pat Evans remembers makeup that "turned black women's mouths into neon signs, turned their skin ashen, made their eyes recede." The fact is that stock cosmetics are bad for blacks...
Horsepower, that is. Always a top competitor in its class, Porsche in past years was known as the Volkswagen of sports cars-a small, sturdy "superbug" that made up in precision performance what it lacked in muscle. In the past two years, however, Porsche debuted two models designed to mix it up with the big boys. Last year the Porsche 908, with a larger 3-liter engine and 380 h.p., proved that it could more than hold its own when it won the World Manufacturers' Championship, losing only three of the ten races on the circuit. The most disappointing...
...LIBERAL caucus did not officially form until several months later, the day after police cleared students from University Hall last Spring. Composed of a more even mix of junior and senior Faculty members, and professors from the humanities and natural sciences, the liberals gathered not to defend the institution, but to give direction to the inevitable changes they believed must come...