Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The issue is not yet resolved, but two recently published books make eloquent pleas for preserving the beauty and pleasures of unspoiled Maine.
In the work of Gustave Moreau . . . des Esseintes saw, realized at last, the strange and superhuman Salome he had dreamed of . . . the accursed Beauty, marked out from all others by the catalepsy which stiffened her flesh and hardened her muscles; the monstrous Beast, indifferent, unresponsive, unfeeling and, like Helen in...
Moreau was Matisse's teacher, but he is not an artist who fits into the formalist canons of "modernism." Indeed, for 50 years it has been de rigueur to reject his work as florid and sickly, despite its demonstrable influence on surrealism and its frequently astonishing beauty. That beauty...
But removing the surface whiskers that have grown as a result of past conflicts and struggles should not mean obliterating the entire face. We want to be familiar with all its features, both beauty marks and blemishes, so that we won't be forced to deal with a stranger. Yes...
Jack's mother, Ethel May, raised in New Jersey, opened up a beauty shop in the bedroom of their Neptune home to support Jack and his two much-older sisters. The business thrived, and the family moved to a bigger place. His sister June left home when Nicholson was...