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Even swinging London, that myth invented by journalists, was harmless enough fun-pink frosting for a cultural revolution. Or was it? Booker does not think so. Behind the charming impudence of miniskirts and rock music, behind the justified indignation of Angry Young Men, he detects a less presentable motive: the "thrill that may be derived from sensing a sudden violation of tranquillity or order...
...They were trading pills on the school grounds," he said. "One would say, 'Here, you try my yellow one and I'll try your pink...
...from white skin," explains former Actress Barbara Walden, now in the beauty business. For one thing, there is a wider variety of skin colors among blacks. "Do you know," she asks, "that we have undertones of browns, oranges, reds and golds-and even purple-in our skin? But never pink, which is the most common undertone in white skins and white makeup." Accordingly, makeup designed for white women is unflattering for blacks; it tends to make darker-toned skin look gray. Lips pose questions too. Many black women find it necessary to use two shades of lipstick to equalize skin...
...uniform tone. But the new black cosmetics have other roles. They are synthesized to meet the problems of black skin-such as oiliness-and differ markedly in ingredients from white makeup. Thus they have lower oil content, for example, and their basic color tones are darker than the pink common to makeup designed for whites...
...Business, politics, winning an election," replies the pink-cheeked gentleman...