Word: stigmas
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...advertising them on the new mass medium of television - that American women began to dye their hair en masse. Until then, women who colored their hair risked being considered trampy adventurers. Clairol's 1956 advertising - campaign slogan "Does she or doesn't she?" was specifically designed to remove the stigma attached to Mae West-Jean Harlow-style hair coloring with the reassuring answer: "Hair color so natural, only her hairdresser knows for sure." And American women never looked back. As Nora Ephron - at 66, a proud artificial brunet - puts it in I Feel Bad About My Neck: "There...
...longest sustained growth it had seen in a while. That's still a dimple on the $763 million U.S. golf-ball market. "We weren't expecting a big bounce, but it beat our expectations, and it's the first step toward breaking the stigma that Top-Flite has had for the last 10 years," says Jeff Colton, senior vice president of R&D at Callaway, who oversaw Top-Flite's relaunch...
...roles go to twentysomethings or to Meryl Streep. That problem, Hunter says, is exacerbated by the decline of middle-budget, character-based films: "Now movies are made for $2 million, or they're made for more than $60 million." To Driver, the variety of roles on cable outweighs any stigma. "I'm glad to be doing TV," she says. "I'll do it at a bus stop if that means you're getting something new and creative out there. I'd do it if it were a dog-food commercial: Buy Pedigree Chum from Dahlia the crank addict...
...were troubled by their implications. Arlene Carr, 66, a homemaker in New Castle, said she worries about increased terrorism at home if the U.S. fails in Iraq. And Skip Haswell, 62, a retired cop in Ambridge, said he's concerned that the troops will suffer from a Vietnam-type stigma if they come home unsuccessful. "I try to explain it to them, that this is a strategy for success. This isn't just pulling out and saying, 'We're leaving the rest for you,'" Altmire said. "Redeveloping the troops to fight terror--that's what this is all about. Nobody...
...unresolved political chaos, but in the Nairobi neighborhood of Eastleigh - a.k.a. "Little Mogadishu" - the dominant sound is that of radios tuned to a local station play a strange Somali song: Cudur, meaning "Disease", speaks of the dangers of AIDS, and warns Somalis to think twice about the social stigma that comes along with this sexually transmitted disease. Somalis don't typically discuss such taboo subjects in public, much less sing about them in bands whose makeup, music and lyrics transcend every boundary imaginable in the traditionally conservative Somali culture...