Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glory of her flamed in him. With magnificent nonchalance, he grasped the frail net that shrouded her shoulders, ripped it to shreds, and cocked an appraising eye at the pale, smooth skin. Rhythm beat in their ears. The surf surged and ebbed...
...women have acquired a new face. It is the pale pale look. And in the look, the eye is the thing...
...direct attention straight into the eyeball," says Saks Fifth Avenue's Evelyn Marshall. Lest eyelids get in the way of the ultimate goal, cosmetic firms are now touting a frosty white eye shadow to replace the usual blues and greens. Heavily applied, such white eye shadow gives a pale glow all the way up to the nonexistent eyebrows. The end product of all this work is a mysterious, ethereal face showing a few good bones and two enormous orbs floating in a sea of neutral beige...
...Look Homeward, Angel Tom Wolfe, not by fifty gallons of corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...
...never in her 26 importunate years-she died in 1937 of uremic poisoning-was Jean Harlow so exploited as in this purported biography produced by Bill Sargent's Electronovision Inc. The real Harlow was jade of purest quality; Sargent's Carol Lynley plays her as a pale finishing-school dropout turned unfinished actress, capturing the walk but not the talk. And Lynley is appropriately supported. Ginger Rogers and Barry Sullivan are grotesquely grasping as her stage mother and stepfather; Efrem Zimbalist Jr., playing a counterfeit composite of Harlow's last costar, Clark Gable, and her last love...