Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...song, "Visions of Johanna" is one of four songs performed for the concert from one of his best albums, Blonde on Blonde--released just two days prior to the concert. Other songs from this album included on Live 1966 are "Fourth Time Around," "Just Like A Woman," and "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat." On "Visions," Dylan's tone is full and resonant; his articulation is absolutely astounding. "But Louise, she's alright, she's just near, she's delicate, she seems like the mirror, but she just makes it all too concise and clear that Johanna is not here." Brilliant...
...slightly softer version of the KKK. Its web site contains "A Call to White Americans," which urges its members to "find the fairskinned babies, and see them as your children." I guess Barr thinks that "real Americans" share a common skin color! The CCC newspaper, Citizens Informer, carries editorials that contain real American views like the following: "Western civilization with all its might and glory would never have achieved its greatness without the directing hand of God and the creative genius of the white race. Any effort to destroy the race be a mixture of black blood is an effort...
...especially when they're bringing the kids. Movie critics started ignoring him, and social critics began hectoring him, because his work ground off the rough, emotionally instructive edges of the folk- and fairy-tale tradition on which it largely drew, robbing it of "the pulse of life under the skin of events," as one critic...
...less know the Estee Lauder story because it's a chapter from the book of American business folklore. In short, Josephine Esther Mentzer, daughter of immigrants, lived above her father's hardware store in Corona, a section of Queens in New York City. She started her enterprise by selling skin creams concocted by her uncle, a chemist, in beauty shops, beach clubs and resorts...
...outworked everyone else in the cosmetics industry. She stalked the bosses of New York City department stores until she got some counter space at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1948. And once in that space, she utilized a personal selling approach that proved as potent as the promise of her skin regimens and perfumes...