Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owner of Sky Search Video in the Atlanta suburbs, estimates that ten dish dealers in the area have closed their doors in just the past two weeks. Many consumers are upset that the costly dishes they bought in pursuit of video independence may turn out to be duds. Says Vincent Morgan, 41, who has a dish in the backyard of his south Los Angeles home: "When the skies go black, a lot of people are going to end up with a very expensive birdbath...
...author of several inspirational best sellers, Schuller shook 10,000 hands in a weeklong January tour promoting his latest volume, an upbeat rewrite of Jesus' Beatitudes titled The Be-Happy Attitudes. Schuller is affiliated with the mainline Reformed Church in America, as is his predecessor in hyperoptimism, Norman Vincent Peale...
...away, at Bullock's department store in Sherman Oaks, Calif., Cathy- Lee Vincent, a store employee, is transfixed by the televised image of her face as electronic "makeup" is applied, cleaned off and then reapplied in a rainbow of hues and shades. As Bonnie Sinclair, a promotional representative for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, wields her stylus, a smear of eye shadow reshapes Vincent's eyes. A touch of blusher highlights her cheeks...
...Vincent and thousands of other Americans are benefiting from an ingenious union of computer and video technology that enables clients and customers to see how they will look with reshaped features, restyled cosmetics, the latest suit or a new head of hair--all before they commit their flesh to the scalpel or their cash to a purchase. The new systems are easing the qualms of prospective cosmetic-surgery patients, making life easier for their doctors and boosting sales in department stores nationwide...
...Vincent was one of the first to try the computerized makeup system after it was set up at Bullock's. Sitting in front of the computer, she was photographed by a video camera mounted above it and immediately saw her image projected on the screen. Then her beautician, using a stylus to choose brushes and colors from palettes displayed across the top of the screen, made over the image of her face to achieve three different "looks" (two for daytime, one for evening). These were then compared with the original on a four-part split screen. "It's fantastic," says...