“if i have only one life, let me live it as a blonde,” a larger-than-life-sized picture of a pretty, vacuous woman proclaimed from newspaper, magazine, and drugstore ads. and across america, three out of every ten women dyed their hair blonde. they ate a chalk called metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of the thin young models. department-store buyers reported that american women, since 1939, had become three and four sizes smaller. the underlined terms in this excerpt most relate to which issue?