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Word: hairspray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberated woman. I wear a bra. I shave my legs, I wear mascara. I set my hair twice a week and have been known to use hairspray. I read Cosmopolitan magazine avidly and join World of Beauty clubs without giving much thought to their sociological significance. I use DippityDo hair-setting gel, Cover Girl medicated makeup, Deep Magic dry skin conditioner, and generally should be a source of great satisfaction to the American manufacturer...

Author: By Joanna Knobler, | Title: It's Not That You Have Bad Breath... | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

TAKE the MTA one stop past Park to Washington Station. Let the fat ladies with shopping bags sweep you up the rickety wooden escalator. Turn left at the tattered John Havlicek for hairspray, climb up past tattered John hawking Record Americans, and you will find yourself on Washington Street--address of Boston's best skin flick parlors...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hetero, Homo, Sado and Pseudo: Skin Flicks Offer All Perversions | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

...know, when Doris starts crinkling her freckles and batting her luxurious spurious eyelashes, a male star is just around the corner. This time it is Richard Harris, a conversation-bugging double agent whose talent consists of electronic gimmickry and histrionic mimicry (principally of Richard Burton). The deodorant and hairspray espionage is supposed to concern itself with the sweet success of smell. But along the line it develops that Interpol is also involved. Someone has been blending hallucinogens into the cosmetics and shipping them all over the world-an LSDevice that gives the stars a chance to plod after a preposterous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold Cream | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Ozon-the hairdressers' hairspray that leaves hair feeling like hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Clio, Muse of Huckstery | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...more, today's model is as much as and no more than her well-disciplined face and body; she is another accessory to the dress she displays, as silent and secondary as the shoes and gloves. If the dress does not fit, the model is made to conform (hairspray cans are tucked in the backs of loose waistlines to take up the slack; tissue paper is stuffed into brassieres to fill out bust lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Bones Have Names | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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