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Word: rainbows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assignment proved to be alluring. Raffety splashed on dozens of perfumes, smeared herself with lotions and creams and spread on a rainbow of lipsticks and eye shadows. To prepare for her first interview with the president of Revlon, she visited a midtown Manhattan skin-care salon and underwent a one-hour facial that included a massage, a seaweed mask and a herbal-tea steaming. She topped off the treatment with a professional makeup job. "A session like that one can change your whole feeling about the world," says Raffety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 11, 1978 | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...chandeliered ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills held treasures of its own last week. Up for auction were 423 possessions of the late Judy Garland. Among the items on the block: Garland's copy of the musical arrangement of Over the Rainbow, a pair of loaded dice given to her by Humphrey Bogart (purchased by Actress Lily Tomlin for $1,200), Judy's The Wizard of Oz scrapbook, and the beaded silk jacket she wore at Carnegie Hall. The highest sum -$60,000-was shelled out for Garland's 1953 black Mercedes-Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Penders believes a lack of athletic scholarships, combined with high tuitions, are conspiring to bar top players from coming to the Ivy League. With no scholarships and a shoestring budget at Columbia, Penders thought this season would be the end of the rainbow for the Lions...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Man and Superman | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...first glance. The Rainbow Goblins (Thames & Hudson: $24.95), by Ul de Rico, seems to be a cocoa-table book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Rainbow of Colorful Reading | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...suggest Leonardo, and his tale is reminiscent of the Grimm brothers. Title roles are played by a group of grouchy little creatures who must be distantly related to black holes: they eat light and color for breakfast. The goblins' quarry is the biggest meal of them all, the rainbow. Their enemies turn out to be every flower and animal on earth. Against those odds, only two species can possibly prevail: the writer and the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Rainbow of Colorful Reading | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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