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...achieve these and other appearances, the modern woman can select from an array of contouring creams, blushes, enamels, colors and scents that would have staggered Ophelia or even her own mother, who got by with only basic lipstick and powder. A big cosmetics company today produces around 2,500 shades of nail polish, many with matching lipsticks, of course. Plus different perfumes, colognes, toilet waters and other fragrances to be worn at the supermarket, on the tennis court, when running?yes, when running?when dining, when saying goodnight to her Sweet Prince. Plus unnumbered shampoos, moisturizers, eye shadows, lip glosses...
Despite such a less than professional appearance, Harvard, if not Ford, has been able to attract a most impressive array of soccer talent. Each year, the caliber of the Harvard soccer program has kept pace with, if not outpaced, the majority of the schools it plays. There is yet to be a team that has proved this on the field...
...Pioneer 2, it has followed a more sweeping trajectory around the sun and will just barely nose out its sister ship, arriving at Venus on Dec. 4. Its assignment is different too; it will ease into orbit around Venus, and in addition to scanning the atmosphere below with an array of instruments, it will beam powerful radar signals through the Venusian clouds and bounce them off the surface. Pioneer 1 will then radio the radar data back to earth, where scientists hope to produce a topographic map of 35% of the hidden Venusian surface showing details 100 meters...
...home. Take the London house furnished by British Author Ian McEwan, 29, in this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother's terminal illness have produced an upsurge in slovenliness and disorder among the children. What happens when the last adult dies is the stuff...
With the confidence of an experienced con artist, Time presents these articles of faith as facts and buttresses them with an impressive array of statistics and testimonials. Practiced in the arts of obfuscation and misrepresentation, Time has created a masterpiece of disguise...