Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seem to think that perfume is out of step with the clean, sporty American look. Though makers sold $110 million worth of fragrance products last year (top three perfumes: Arpege, Chanel No. 5, My-Sin), the perfume market has barely expanded in the last ten years. "Perfume is a woman's secret weapon," says Jean Desprèes, executive vice president of Coty...
...Lipstick. The saga of royal jelly is a striking example of one of the most significant aspects of the whole beauty business-one that puzzles many a woman, irritates many a husband. Says Mel Finkelstein, president of the House of Westmore: "In this business, price is not consistent with cost." When it first came out, royal jelly cream sold for $15 an ounce despite the fact that an ounce contained only about 150 milligrams of jelly, worth about 17? today a woman can still buy creams containing royal jelly in some stores for $15 an ounce, but she can also...
Unfortunately, Olivia's pill is so heavily sugared that grownups may find it hard to swallow. Actress de Havilland, who is seldom seen on the screen these days, is still the same fine-looking woman -a condition the studio attributes to "marital happiness and yoga exercises." Unhappily, she is also the same mistress of sentimental overstatement. She never misses a chance to press her heart and roll her eyes, but she could not be bothered to learn the proper way to blow out a kerosene lamp.*As for Actor Ladd, after 17 years and 40 starring roles...
...have written more feelingly than James of how one falls in love with a place. Writing again of Venice, his favorite city, James rose above the snobbery of things old or new to capture the wonder of all moving travel experiences: "[Venice] varies like a nervous woman, whom you know only when you know all the aspects of her beauty. She has high spirits or low, she is pale or red, grey or pink, cold or warm, fresh or wan, according to the weather or the hour . . . The place seems to personify itself, to become human and sentient and conscious...
Rubber-Walled Cell. Later a wealthy woman called "L" became O'Connor's mistress and patroness, bought him erector sets, clockwork trains, motorcars, liquor, and phonograph records ("Tchaikovsky for ... relishing misery . . . Stravinsky for hangovers"). All the while, she "walked by "my side, never-ceasing in her disciple's adoration." But by the time the two of them had spent all "L's" capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled...