Word: ms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Foreman [Dec. 4], I am inaccurately quoted as charging that Ms. Foreman has "sold out" to the food industry. Whatever Ms. Foreman's failings may be in regulating that industry, they are attributable to inadequate leadership, not, definitely not, venality...
While Main Street Ms. America pays $2 for simple moisturizers and cleansers, the more affluent are willing to drop $235 on the complete La Prairie line of five Swiss-made "miracle" creams and lotions that are sold at some department stores. The $70 Treatment Cream contains live cells from sheep placenta, ostensibly to retard aging. Probably the most successful of the full lines is Estée Lauder's Clinique, consisting of seven products concocted with the help of dermatologists and priced from $6.50 to $7.50 each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where...
...nice it is to see them and climbs the stairs. Inside, the advance woman is pacing nervously. There are two men and three pimply teenagers in light blue tuxedos with too-red-to-be-real roses pinned to their lapels. A sign outside the auditorium reads, "The First Annual Ms. Senior Sweetheart Pageant." No kidding--a senior citizens' beauty contest. Anything for a vote...
Alas, even if Ms. Greitzer's bill becomes law, it will be a while before the unwary diner-out is fully protected from Menuese-a peculiar subbranch of American Englihs, rich in mouth-watering adjectives, that is designed both to entice and to obfuscate. In the interests of consumerism, TIME herewith offers its own guide to some of the most common plats du jour found on U.S. restaurant menus-and what they really mean...
...great, but he pulls off his numbers with no major trouble. Millicent Martin, as the madam, has too many songs and becomes boring after the first act. The show runs about two and a half hours--far too long, particularly in the first act--and I suspect some of Ms. Martin's numbers will feel the knife in the near future...