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...personality were too ebullient to be bilious; the Nast or nasty drawing, he seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel, he gave outsize snouts. Many women he saw as birds: Lynn Fontanne, Katharine Hepburn and others are long-necked swans. He was drawn to larger-than-life, larger-than-art figures, from...
...year of the Botox party--a festive variation on the Tupperware klatch--in which women gather for tea sandwiches and a shot of diluted botulinum toxin in the face. The FDA last year approved the use of Botox, which creates a temporary and localized paralysis in facial muscles, for smoothing wrinkles between the eyebrows. But doctors are also using the shots for such "off-label" applications as crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines. If the sight of all those glassy Botoxed faces is giving you a headache, get this: researchers at Wake Forest University found that Botox...
DIED. LUCY GREALY, 39, whose harrowing 1994 memoir, Autobiography of a Face, recounted her repeated surgeries, starting in childhood, to repair severe facial disfigurement resulting from cancer; of undisclosed causes; in New York City. In her book, which became a staple of many college and high school syllabuses, Grealy detailed how her flawed appearance radically altered her sense of self...
...know whether to trust a man, they say, you must look into his eyes. While Italy last week got its first good glimpse of Mafia turncoat Antonino Giuffrè, his deep dark eyes and sunken facial features were kept hidden from view. During his live video testimony, broadcast on Tuesday in a Palermo courtroom, the 57-year-old former top lieutenant of Cosa Nostra - the Sicilian Mafia - offered sometimes electrifying allegations in the Mafia-association trial of Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, a close political ally and business partner of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But throughout the four hours of questioning...
...study published in last week’s issue of Science, fifth-year graduate student Brian A. Hare and Michelle Brown ’01 explored why dogs are so much better than other animals at understanding human hand and facial cues—better even than our own ancestors, chimpanzees...