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...eleven-year-old chow dogs for company ("They bite very well; I've seen quite a few visitors I didn't want go off with blood sloshing out of their shoes")-a paradigm of the frontier experience which Thoreau tried with less success to live at Walden...
...believe they would reject the plan outright." Edward S. Gruson, Assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, said yesterday. "It's no Thoreau's Walden Pond...
...skin is different from white skin," explains former Actress Barbara Walden, now in the beauty business. For one thing, there is a wider variety of skin colors among blacks. "Do you know," she asks, "that we have undertones of browns, oranges, reds and golds-and even purple-in our skin? But never pink, which is the most common undertone in white skins and white makeup." Accordingly, makeup designed for white women is unflattering for blacks; it tends to make darker-toned skin look gray. Lips pose questions too. Many black women find it necessary to use two shades of lipstick...
...preparations last year (white women spent close to $1 billion in each category), the figures are changing. While there have always been special products aimed at the black woman, until five years ago there was no complete line of specifically black beauty products. Today there are four. The Barbara Walden quality line alone grossed $7,000 two years ago, is expected to rack up close to $500,000 this year...
Between these literary vaudeville acts, Moynahan vamps with stand-up monologues on the purpose of libraries and the function of the city planner. Or he stages set-piece black situation-comedy scenes, like Myles' forlorn pastoral picnic on the shores of Walden Pond, now carpeted with beer cans...