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Almost unnoticeably, other features have been fading. First to go was the vivid mouth. By 1961 beige lipsticks, or maybe the faintest pink or tangerine, were de rigueur. Next, bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have to go. Cosmeticians have decided they are merely distracting. Short of shaving them off (shaved brows sometimes won't grow back), the experts are advocating any camouflage method: bleaching, masking them with foundation creams, or even covering them up with a fringe of bangs...
...Turbulent Life. Professor Bergin begins his book with vivid chapters on Dante's century and Dante's life. It was the century of Cimabue and Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph...
...depersonalized world. His vision of man living on "a narrow ridge" of "holy insecurity" rings true for many concerned about the shadow of holocaust. But like many another phrasemaking prophet, suggests Dr. Ernst Simon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Buber may well pay for the triumph of a vivid concept with anonymity and be forgotten as a man while his ideas live on in the consciousness of the West...
Work on a play begins with the arduous process of casting. Preliminary blocking is done in a practice room with tape on the floor to guide the actors. of Particular importance are the exits and entrances. The sequence of movements must be clear: yet vivid and illuminating...
Throughout Asia, admen take far more liberties with sex than their Western colleagues would dare. They run explicit commercials for aphrodisiacs and ads for contraceptives, use blatant virility symbols and vivid mammary illustrations, send out song-and-dance troupes singing suggestive ad messages. The new controversy over this emphasis on sex says something significant about the young and rapidly growing Asian ad business. After copying Western ads for years, Asian admen are now developing their own distinctly flamboyant styles. They are also finding new prosperity-and problems in the rising consumer economies of Southeast Asia...