Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held at her Southampton beachfront mansion or cavernous Fifth Avenue apartment with its giant de Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary of Commerce, griped acidly about "the hatchet job" the Washington Post magazine had done on her. "What did they call you?" Lear asked. " 'Glamorous,' " drawled Mosbacher. "Take it, honey," barked Lear. "They call me 'eccentric.' " Under the gleam of crystal refracted by lemony...
Helmut Kohl has infuriated the Bush Administration by trying to save his political skin with a call on the superpowers to negotiate over short-range nuclear weapons. But however pusillanimous his motives may be, Kohl happens to be right in what he recommends. Tactical nuclear weapons have never made sense, especially concentrated in West Germany, the putative battlefield where World War III would begin. If American tactical missiles were ever fired in anger, they would raise mushroom clouds over German territory and probably kill more local civilians than foreign invaders. If, on the other hand, the missiles were not fired...
Chaflen described the results of poor heating and ventilation as "respiratory difficulties, allergies, skin irritations, headaches and fatigue...
Sunbathers are concerned about protecting their skin these days, but nobody likes to handle greasy, gritty suntan-lotion bottles. One entrepreneur's answer is Sun Center, a vending machine that dispenses tanning oil with a spray applicator. A customer activates the spritzer by depositing 50 cents. A hand-held nozzle then emits a light mist for 40 seconds, generally enough to cover those hard-to-reach places...
...reveal his age (mid-30s by deduction). "It puts you in a category," he insists. "You're not fresh enough to be new." Ask him about his father leaving home, and he sidesteps the question with an ode to his dad's shoes (black-and-white pony skin). Kelly wants to remember Mississippi merry, not Mississippi burning. But one memory sticks: when secondhand books were shipped over from the white elementary school across town, he said, "they'd color in the faces of Dick and Sally so they'd be black when they...