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...have to address themselves to what remains the movies' main function-intelligible storytelling. But with all its excesses, the new cinema is bound to stimulate the medium. For one thing, it has already produced a modest but substantial body of exciting work. For another, it serves as a salon des refusés for aspects of the art rejected by the commercial cinema. Even though many Hollywood directors write off the experimenters as no-talent amateurs, some of their notions are already being absorbed into the visual vocabulary of the media. The men who make television commercials, for instance...
...surgeons to make themselves "more charming" to their husbands and boy friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who heads Tokyo's plush Minagawa Cosmetic Clinic, "girls come in and go out much as they go to the beauty salon to have their hair done." Dr. Pham Ba Vien, dean of Saigon's practitioners of chirurgie esthétique, agrees. "Show a woman something different-a new style or a new face-and she wants it," he says. "And if she can afford it, she will...
Every TIME writer cherishes some favorite puns he has managed to get into print. Richard Burgheim takes credit for calling the book Peyton Place a "peeping tome," while Alwyn Lee related in a book review how "the critics have been whooping it up in the Malamud salon...
...name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor Adair, and 3) $6,000 from a cousin, she set up her first salon, for well-heeled society matrons, in a converted brownstone house at 509 Fifth Avenue. The loan was paid back within six months...
...took a job as a coupon clerk in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square), stood nightly rooftop vigil as a volunteer fire warden. Eventually, he worked himself up to division manager, "hating every minute of it" except for his rounds to the store's hairdressing salon, where, he recalls dryly, "the atmosphere of hysteria reminded me of opera...