Word: perm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Newman is a VES concentrator interested in perm culture, the art of living on the land...
...Another car slows down near our section of the line. It's a late-model black, Nissan Pathfinder. A window rolls down and a middle-aged woman with a perm, heavy eye-liner, and a flashy adornment of jewelry scans the crowd...
...working for something called the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission--surely the bureaucratic equivalent of the Maytag repair service. One spring day, as she manned a registration desk at a conference, fate brought her into the line of sight of her Governor, who allegedly divined beneath her frothy perm a "come-hither" look. A state trooper appeared at her side, imploringly. She rose from her chair and stepped into the roiling currents of American history. It is a Horatio Alger story for our time. It could have happened to anybody wearing mascara...
...JHERI REDDING, 91, shampoo guru who founded the eponymous beauty-products empire; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Unhappy with lackluster hair-care products, Redding experimented with ingredients from his own kitchen cabinet including vinegar and mayonnaise. His creative combos yielded such innovations as creme rinse, pH-balanced shampoo and the perm product Jheri Curl...
...things he said was that Asian-Americans who dye or perm their hair are trying to be white. This may be true for some, but definitely...