Word: reba
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Analyzing Brazil's orgy at carnaval time is almost as much fun as participating in it. American Psychiatrist Dr. Reba Campbell feels that it offers Brazilians "a chance to live deep in fantasy," fulfilling everyone's "need to be important." A Brazilian psychiatrist, Dr. José Leme Lopes, sees it as a "kind of collective cathartic." Psychologist J. Wayne Gibson, an American living and working in Brazil as an industrial consultant and private therapist, has watched half a dozen carnavals. Last week he offered a TIME correspondent these observations on the festival's psychic roots and meaning...
...list some 1,800 houses in that area. What a timesaver it can be was demonstrated by U.S. Army Major Ronald Dubois, a Viet Nam veteran, who was assigned to the Pentagon. After following up several leads only to have his hopes dashed, he consulted Falls Church, Va., Broker Reba Gardner. She put their problem to Realtron...
They wanted a four-bedroom house with a family room, near the Pentagon, a good school, church and bus line to Washington, D.C. The computer had the answer. When Reba Gardner called the broker selling it, he exclaimed, "My God, Reba. I just got that house a few minutes ago." An appointment was made for Major Dubois to see the house first thing the next morning. By 11 o'clock the deal was closed...
They take credit for new beauty trends too. They popularized the "beret-bang coiffure," for which girls snip their bangs along the jaunty angle of a beret; the Churchill sisters claim they see it everywhere. Their book, Reba and Bonnie's Guide to Glamour and Personality, was used as the official reference for the 1962 Miss Universe contest...
...They got onto the glamour gimmick when they visited their first movie studio. The heat caused their hastily made eyebrows to run (they have been sprucing up with cosmetics since pubescence), and the makeup director generously lectured them on the proper use of eyebrow pencil. "Were we embarrassed!" recalls Reba, re-creating her blush. But next day they wrote up the incident in their column and were deluged with letters asking for more tips...