Word: nose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper lip, and sometimes the palate...
...Pauper. The actor needed plastic in his makeup plus padding on his body to effect the appropriate regal bearing. "My eyes are deep set; his were close to the surface," observed Heston. "My face is angular; his was square. My mouth is large; his was small. My nose is angular and broken; his was square and short." The makeup worked just fine in the end, noted the actor, "but we really had a great deal of distance...
...Pietro. "I couldn't breathe. It made my eyes water. The next day all the leaves and plants and flowers were riddled with small holes, as if they had been struck with tiny hailstones." Within a few days, household pets in the area started to bleed at the nose and mouth, then die. Farmyard chickens dropped dead, wild birds fell from trees, mice and rats crawled out of their holes and died. One farmer saw his cat keel over, and when he went to pick up the body, the tail fell off. When authorities...
...satin, diamond jewelry and long white gloves, sits atop a throne set smack in the middle of Broadway. Mae West--well, Mae West is Mae West, and here she is shown staring, almost licking her lips, at some anonymous specimen of beefcake. Barbra Streisand once again arrogantly displays the-nose-I-wouldn't-get-fixed-but-I-became-a-star-anyway-so-there; Marilyn Monroe cuddles in a vulnerable curl; Josephine Baker gives her best come-hither look, clad only in yards and yards of pearls...
...from these fine portraits of our finest women. The final page of Life's "Remarkable Women," an Avedon shot of Marian Anderson, is worth the two dollar price alone. A handsome woman of talent and strength sings to the camera, her thick black hair flying in the wind, her nose flaring in effort, her eyes closed in ecstasy. And that is all you need to know...