Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women who use then- catalogues to salute late-coming friends do so at their peril." In practice, a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous prearranges his signals with the auctioneer. Thus a bid may be wigwagged by a nod, a wink, a patted handkerchief, a crooked finger, an arched eyebrow. Says one Manhattan auctioneer of a prominent patron: "When he turns his back on me with a cigar in his mouth and walks away, that means he's bidding...
...since died, Goldsmith believes that there is some corroborating visual evidence in photographs of F.D.R. taken over the years. By about 1932, he says, a small pigmented lesion had appeared above Roosevelt's left eye. In following years it seems to have enlarged and grown downward into the eyebrow. But after 1943 the lesion was gone. That leads Goldsmith to believe that the lesion was a sign of malignant melanoma-a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called...
...raised eyebrow...
...pies in the kitchen; Roberts, milady's personal maid, is minding everybody's business but her own; and Rose, our own Rose, is looking noble. Upstairs, Lady Marjorie is reigning once more as empress of the morning room, stopping from time to time to arch an autocratic eyebrow at Husband Richard Bellamy. Daughter Elizabeth has caught a bad case of socialism, and Son James is dallying with Sarah, the underhouse parlormaid. Keeping everyone in place, of course, is the butler Hudson, better known as the admirable Hudson...
Portrait painters and photographers know only too well that the human face is asymmetrical; wrinkles and eyebrow movements vary, and the smile usually breaks from one side to the other. What is more, each side seems to express a different feeling. This phenomenon can best be shown by first covering one half of the face in a portrait, then the other. In most cases, the right side of the subject's face (on the viewer's left) appears pleasant or blank; the left side looks worried, fearful or even a bit sinister. The difference is even more pronounced...