Word: refinish
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...book, The Wrinkle Cure, in 2000 and the launch of his pricey line of skin-care potions. (Perricone just opened a flagship store on Manhattan's Madison Avenue last month.) At-home alternatives to dermatological procedures have also hit big. Last June, for example, L'Oréal Paris launched ReFinish, a $25 microdermabrasion kit; it's the brand's most expensive--and successful--skin-care product to date...
Most how-to books instruct readers in ways to refinish furniture, profit from a recession, communicate with one's in-laws or cook some exotic ethnic casserole. But one of the hottest tomes of the moment -- it has sold out its first printing of 41,000 copies and will top next week's best-seller list of how-to and advice volumes in the New York Times -- explains, step by step, how to end a human life...
...threatened by landslides from a nearby mountain. The most likely remedy is a + chain-link fence to protect the monument from falling rocks. Meanwhile, the Polish Center of Archaeology in Cairo has been doing restoration work on parts of the temple. One project: using gypsum to patch up and refinish a statue of the god Osiris...
William Minney, Buildings and Grounds College Area Superintendent, estimated the repair costs in the "Low thousands of dollars." He said that B&G will have to refinish the warped floors and repaint the stained ceilings and water-swollen walls...
...heroine, played with exquisite, deadly grace by Catherine Deneuve the radiant waif of Umbrellas of Cherbourg-is a French manicurist working in London. Her days pass among the minimal terrors of a de luxe beauty salon where she helps refinish the surfaces of wealthy, parchment-faced matrons. In the street outside lies a world of hot-mouthed males whose attentions send her into panicky flight. Every night in bed she waits, staring, petrified, until her uninhibited sister (Yvonne Furneaux) and a married lover come home to curdle a young girl's blood with their noisy nocturnal diversions...