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...mascara, the bold hair shades are dabbed on as bright decoration, slathered on as an overall tint, or tipped into the hair to match eye shadows or even jewelry. Colors on the market include both vibrant and pastel offerings, with names like Red Riot, Hot Pink and Ultra Violet (although steady favorites are metallic and shimmery shades of gold). Many of the hip hues can be sluiced away with one shampooing; others require as many as six. "They're cosmetics for the hair," declares James Viera of L'Oréal, which sells its wash-away dyes at drugstore cosmetic counters...
...says Antoinette Bruno, editor-in-chief of Starchefs, an influential chef's magazine. "This year is the return to flavor." Several speakers at the conference concurred. Montse Estruch, of the Catalan restaurant El Cingle, boosted the taste of a beautifully presented San Peter's fish with a handful of violet petals. In a talk that drew on his own experience raising animals and vegetables for his Blue Hill restaurants in New York, chef Dan Barber generated buzz with a discussion of why allowing lambs to graze on grass is not only better for the environment and for the animals than...
...example, Andrews writes: "Our 'nursing' seldom involved more than dabbing gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on cuts and scratches, lead lotion on bruises and sprains." Compare that to McEwan (this is on p. 260): "In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise." There are a couple more instances along these lines, but you get the idea...
...direct shot at goal, the Crimson jumped on the counter-attack. Led by sophomore midfielder Michael Fucito’s remarkable speed up the sideline, Harvard caught a break in the 83rd minute when Cornell midfielder Tom Marks received his second yellow card of the match. Head referee Mike Violet drew the red card from his pocket and sent Marks on his lonely walk of shame to the Big Red bench. Fucito, who incurred the foul that resulted in the red, said afterwards, “it gave us a little bit of a lift, especially since we struggled...
...does not look at Arianna Huffington and think, "shrinking violet." She ran an all-but-lost-cause campaign for governor in California, she's done a television