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Many makeup pros are literally spray-painting their clients' faces, applying a thin layer of makeup to cover the surface with thousands of tiny dots (think ink-jet printers) that conceal flaws and don't smudge. Others are working more closely than ever with lighting directors, hiding extra lights in cabinets and other secret places on a set so actors' faces are bathed in more brightness and look softer. "I am always telling Christine, 'Keep your chin up. Stay in the light,'" says Bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For TV Stars, High Def Is Dicey | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

First-years will be plauged by an unknown illness as they continue to play ultimate frisbee on the curious green spray on the lawns of the Yard...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: PREDICTIONS | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...SOSKIN: Thanks for your gracious congrats on my Oscar predictions, which even I wasn’t expecting would be so accurate (do I get extra points for guessing the breath spray?). Honestly, though, I wish that I had missed in more of the categories—it wasn’t worth sitting through four hours of foregone conclusions just to get gloating privileges...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Ben Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Possible Sunshine in a Plotless Year | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...still funny, especially those that no corporation would approve today. A girl with her brother explains to dad: "Willie just swallowed a bug, and I'm having him gargle with Flit." A male and a female mosquito stand before a minister mosquito, with a scowling fourth figure holding the spray at the groom: "The Flit Gun Wedding." A bug stands in front of the business end of the spray gun, a rope attached to the pump: "The suicide." In a tribute to his ancestors, Geisel did one ad in semi-German: "Quick Heinrich, Das Flit" (Should it be "Raus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...called on director Frank Capra to amass a film unit, mainly for documentaries that would instruct soldiers and citizens on the government's enemies, aims and ideals. (From this unit came the "Why We Fight" series and many other powerful non-fiction films.) Geisel, who had sold bug spray and motor oil through humor, and honed his satirical skills on the isolationists for PM, was the prefect recruit for this task. At the end of the war this son of German-Americans wrote a training film called "Your Job in Germany," which said that the German people would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

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