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...nail polish (the median number of shades owned is 3.3); 87% of them use lipstick, and 59% of them use eye makeup...
...tornado ten years ago swept through Flint, Mich., and tore up the town. Afterward, hundreds of people came from miles around to pitch in and help rebuild. Up walked an old geezer wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...sails far-distant waters. She is part Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Listen to the sea-only listen"), part Lee Strasberg ("Become an animal; make the noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge their...
...plays with a mystic, "golden horn" lyricism, and he looks and acts enough like the late James Dean to have inherited a vast following of movie-house rebels. But now all that is behind him-he has been away too long. Early last year, he was about to nail the lid on his career with a Dino de Laurentiis film called The Chet Baker Story, but as his luck would have it, the project was dropped: there was not enough material in a life so young and lost. > DRUMMER KENNY CLARKE, 49, was One of bebop's frontiersmen...
...began bleeding from the rectum in March of 1938," he said. "The doctor found a cancer, smaller than the nail of your little finger, between three and four inches up inside my rectum. They recommended removal of the rectum. Then I'd have had to have a colostomy and evacuate into a pouch, through an artificial opening, for the rest of my life. I didn't feel I could go for this. But the doctors said that for my particular case they could offer an alternative-a temporary colostomy and radiation treatment. I took...