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Susan Webb's new book, Step Forward, (MasterMedia; $9.95) will not hit the stores for another week or so, but already her publisher is fielding a dozen requests a day for bulk orders. Among the eager buyers: Heublein, Bristol- Myers and Avon. The first book about sexual harassment published since the Thomas hearings, Webb's book is refreshingly free of ideology and reproach. A longtime human-relations expert and specialist on this subject, Webb wrote Step Forward at breakneck speed, sending in a chapter...
Elizabeth Arden boasts that its Ceramide Time Complex Capsules contain various ingredients, including retinyl palmitate, and vitamins E and F, that together "fix, replenish or repair the barrier function of the skin." Shisheido touts Bio-Performance as a "super-revitalizer" that awakens the "skin's youthful balance." Avon is pushing three different antiaging treatments: BioAdvance (with vitamin A), Collagen Booster (vitamin C) and a new product to be introduced next year, Aneu (alpha-hydroxy acids). As for cellulite nostrums, Arden promotes its gel and moisturizer by citing clinical tests "from a renowned university in France." Lancome says...
...Vincent Price) lived in a mansion at the edge of Any Town, U.S.A. His crowning creation was a young humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp). Alas, the old genius died before he could give Edward human hands. So for many years this benign creature lived alone. Until one day an Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) came calling, and then...
Edward is the innocent other, a literary type that stretches from Kaspar Hauser to Being There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even...
Farrell played his high school hockey at Avon Old Farms in Connecticut, and has previously played with Drury and the Crimson's four senior forwards in last summer's Olympic Festival. He joined classmates Maguire and Body for Hockey Night in Boston last year...