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Word: plasterers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room, wrapped in a sheet and stretched out on a padded table. Momentarily, you fear an autopsy. Instead a willowy brunette massages your brow with peachmeal skin cleanser. As your cuticles soften inside pink infraray booties and mittens, she applies a "mint masque" that hardens on your face like plaster. In the soft turquoise light, you barely feel your scalp simmering in hot oil. The strains of piped-in violins grow distant. "Reeelax," purrs the brunette, daubing turtle oil on your eyelids. "Let yourself gooo . . ." BODY BASTING. You are awakened in time for a class in "aquathenics," exercises performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: In Search of the New You | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...yard from the open bathroom window 30 feet above. He seemed to have landed on his feet, for both legs were broken at the ankles, the heels shattered, the stumps protruding and bits of bone strewn over the cobbles. His hands were scuffed, and the fingernails had paint or plaster beneath them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Will Out | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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