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Almost unnoticeably, other features have been fading. First to go was the vivid mouth. By 1961 beige lipsticks, or maybe the faintest pink or tangerine, were de rigueur. Next, bright rouge was replaced by the merest tint of color brushed on the cheekbone to accent the eye. Now eyebrows have...
A Meticulous Lucidity. Experienced in luminous Tuscan, this passage magically induces the sense of mystical identity with deity, the supreme religious experience. No more complex effect of poetry has ever been conceived, yet Dante achieves it with simple means. He is always simple, vigorous, lucid. His descriptions are like paintings...
Some of the biggest names in British exports are double-barreled: Rolls-Royce, Mini-Minor, Terry-Thomas. Even without the hyphen, the actor's face would probably have made his name familiar the world over. Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby...
"No common man am I!" crowed Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Indeed he was not. He stood 6 ft. 1 and looked like a gangling Gargantua: lowering brows, a cast in one eye, rubbery sprawling lips, and a slide-away chin. Women fell all over him, and he returned the compliment. He...
He continued, telling us how he had started on Macrobiotics. "Some of my friends around the Square were eating it; I thought they were crazy. Then I bought some brows rice and cooked it in my room. I nothing but brown rice for ten days. After a few meals I...