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...People think I've had a face-lift," beams Carole Herman, 42, of Penn Valley, Pa. "It's astounding what a difference it makes." It is Retin-A, the nation's hottest new anti-aging potion, and despite the misgivings of some dermatologists about the perpetual parade of glops and goos that promise a more youthful complexion, many doctors cautiously agree that the mounting clamor may be justified. "People have gone absolutely crazy about it," declares Duane Tucker, a Manhattan Beach, Calif., skin doctor. "When it comes to sun damage, it's the closest thing we have to a youth...
Blessed with a private income from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a Cafe Royal dandy in embryo. Perhaps the main reason Demuth has not been seen in depth before is that some of the paintings that meant the most to him were not thought exhibitable. For Demuth was homosexual; not a flaming queen, in fact rather a discreet gay, but still loath...
...couple of years after the divorce, however, Sondheim's mother made a doting gesture that transformed his life. Stephen, then 12, had made a new friend named Jamie Hammerstein, son of Oscar, the lyricist of Very Warm for May, and was invited to the family farm in Doylestown, Pa., for a weekend. The weekend turned into a summer and, not long after, Mrs. Sondheim bought a house in Doylestown so Stephen could live there year-round. She continued to commute to Manhattan, often stayed there during the week and on weekends typically brought along guests. But as Jamie Hammerstein recalls...
Autoworkers cheered ten years ago, when the first Volkswagen Rabbit hopped off the assembly line in Westmoreland County, Pa. It was the start of a new breed: a foreign brand built on U.S. soil by American workers. The plant's initial success helped inspire Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda to open U.S. plants of their own. But last week the pioneering VW plant came to grief, a victim of growing competition in the American market. Volkswagen, whose U.S. sales have plunged from 162,005 autos in 1981 to 73,920 last year, said it would halt production at the Westmoreland...
...PA, which is already sold abroad, will be marketed under the brand name Activase. Genentech officials say the drug, which costs about $2,000 a treatment, could be available in two or three weeks...