Word: revlon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face on cosmetology, and today she prizes those products that help foster a fresh, natural appearance. As the senior reporter-researcher in the Economy and Business section, Raffety suggested and worked on this week's cover story about one of the cosmetics industry's largest retail companies, Revlon, and its president, Michel Bergerac...
...assignment proved to be alluring. Raffety splashed on dozens of perfumes, smeared herself with lotions and creams and spread on a rainbow of lipsticks and eye shadows. To prepare for her first interview with the president of Revlon, she visited a midtown Manhattan skin-care salon and underwent a one-hour facial that included a massage, a seaweed mask and a herbal-tea steaming. She topped off the treatment with a professional makeup job. "A session like that one can change your whole feeling about the world," says Raffety...
...when, before the strike, masochistic New Yorkers took perverse delight in setting aside eight or nine hours for plowing through the 4-lb., 400-page Sunday Times to reassure themselves that nothing had really happened after all. "My Sundays are ruined!" cries Paula Gamache, a senior treasury analyst for Revlon, Inc. "There's no substitute for the crossword puzzle. I do it every week, I'm that compulsive." To fill the empty hours, Pronto, a trendy East Side Italian restaurant, is offering a Sunday brunch for the first time, and similar affairs at other nosheries are S.R.O. Central Park...
Among the U.S. firms that have been most severely criticized by South African black activists are Revlon and GM. While Revlon has been cited for lack of training programs, unfair pay policies and other grievances, the GM case has been especially ironic in view of Sullivan's presence on the parent company's board. But last summer, after 278 blacks and coloreds had signed papers to have dues deducted for a union, they were invited to the company's welfare department and asked if they understood what they had done; most of the workers subsequently withdrew their...
...like Tiegs, whose faces become associated with several specific products, have come into fashion. Margaux Hemingway and Lauren Hutton have restrictive but enormously profitable contracts. Margaux is reportedly receiving $1 million over five years to work exclusively for Faberge, while Hutton is getting $500,000 over two years from Revlon. Another agency owner, the Hungarian who calls himself Zoli, in mono-moniker fashion, sees daily fees escalating still further. Says he: "I doubt whether Hutton would step in front of a camera for less than $5,000 a day" when she finishes her Revlon contract. "Cheryl Tiegs is getting...