Word: ashenness
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...Sweeney, Cariou performs with epic ashen gravity like a scion of the House of Usher summoned forth by Poe. Quite wonderful and totally different is Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett, a blowsy pragmatist as wickedly succulent as one of her pies. Within a broodingly ominous iron clad set, Harold Prince directs his accomplished forces with the flash, flourish and panache of a Broadway Patton...
...relations with the newly derecognized government of Taiwan? The first sign of difficulties came when Vice Foreign Minister Frederick Ch'ien greeted the Americans before TV cameras with undisguised disgruntlement. "I meet you here at this time with a heavy and pained heart," he said. Turning to the ashen-faced and unsmiling Christopher, he added: "Your visit here should be the first step in your government's efforts to mitigate the disastrous damage wrought by this mistake...
...black women, and the major cosmetics houses long neglected them. All skin "exfoliates"; minute pieces come loose and peel off, with the result that everybody gets a new coat of skin every 28 days or so. On white women the effect is often unnoticeable, but the exfoliation can make ashen spots show up on dark skin, unless it is covered with special emollients. The upper and lower lips of black women sometimes differ in color?slightly, but enough to require application of a special base to the relatively lighter lower lip if a lipstick is not to come...
...unseen company they keep-God, the devil and Russia-that lends them the strange dimensions of figures in fables. At one point in Marriage, a key character breaks into a paroxysm of laughter about the absurdity of just about everything. Then his face takes on an ashen look of desolation, and he says, "God have mercy on our sinning souls." Gogol uses such juxtapositions to go beyond tragedy or comedy into a realm that might be called cosmic farce...
...magnitude of their triumph was evident as the three leaders spoke in turn Sunday night in the gold and crystal East Room of the White House where some 400 Congressmen, Cabinet members and the trio's staff had hastily assembled. His face ashen with fatigue but punctuated by repeated smiles, Carter announced the broad outlines of the two agreements, declaring, "My hope is that the promise of this moment will be fulfilled." Sadat, initially somber, was almost reverential in his praise of Carter for calling the summit. Said he: "You took a gigantic step...