Word: grecian
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What you see is a compact-model candidate, 5 ft. 8 in. tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million...
...Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion). On the right are academic idealism and romanticism, Ingres and his heirs, Delacroix and his, smooth recipes of Grecian flesh and turbulent Byronic visions of nature. Beyond Courbet on the left, you have Manet; beyond Thomas Couture on the right, there is Degas. To stand in the sculpture-avenue between them, savoring the confrontation, framed in their respective portals, of Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe with Degas's Bellelli...
Adapting the volume for the big screen, Gage has sacrificed much of the undercover reportage that made Eleni such a good read. He relies instead on a top-heavy selection of sentimental flashbacks featuring Eleni selflessly ministering to the needs of her children, sanctifying her as the archtypical Grecian mother-martyr. In so doing, Gage forgoes the realistic context essential to the docu-drama style he is ostensibly seeking (and had achieved in the book), ending up instead with a tear-soaked, superficial Monday Night at the Movies...
...opera, ballet and theater costumes and sets. For a PBS special on Duke Ellington he fashioned a sinuous red number that suited the song Creole Love Call; for her Carnegie Hall performance of Semele, based on a mythological subject, he produced a one-shoulder dress that suggested a Grecian column. "In a live performance, who doesn't listen with their eyes as well?" she asks...
...that Grecian formula I smell in your hair, gramps? Are those your real teeth...