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Tinted contact lenses that make blue eyes appear even bluer have been around for several years. Now Wesley-Jessen, a Chicago-based lens manufacturer, has become the first U.S. firm to market a lens that lightens dark eyes, turning them blue, aqua or green. The firm also plans to introduce hazel lenses. Consumers in droves are now snapping up the blobs of soft plastic for about $250 a pair. A solid third of the sales are to customers who buy nonprescription versions solely for cosmetic reasons...
...Wesley-Jessen expects the lenses to bring in revenues exceeding $50 million in their first year. That could make them the hottest new eye product since soft lenses were introduced in 1971. Nonetheless, the colored variety is only a mote by comparison with overall retail sales of contact lenses, which totaled $1.3 billion last year...
...student production of these plays would undoubtedly seem juvenile and possibly annoying, but director Wesley Savick and his cast have an unerring sense of timing. All the performances are good, particularly those of Norris and Benjamin Evett as Laertes...
directed by R. J. Cutler and Wesley Savick...
Although the Kennedy School is far away from the Middle East, UPI correspondent Wesley Pippert seems to have adjusted to the change in climate and political atmosphere...