Word: paled
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...glory of her flamed in him. With magnificent nonchalance, he grasped the frail net that shrouded her shoulders, ripped it to shreds, and cocked an appraising eye at the pale, smooth skin. Rhythm beat in their ears. The surf surged and ebbed...
...impact of these native artists, most of them peasants, is almost unbearably and perhaps unwittingly sad. The skies glower. A hired man slumps by his ax, in utter fatigue or despair. In a village cafe, the dancers do not smile. An old woman nods by candlelight, her face pale as death. A gypsy wedding scene seethes with movement, but the movement is angry, and the arm of the old man in the foreground seems to be raised in menace, his mouth seems to bellow wrath. Although Bihalji-Merin, who is an art critic and historian, limits the accompanying text...
...women have acquired a new face. It is the pale pale look. And in the look, the eye is the thing...
...direct attention straight into the eyeball," says Saks Fifth Avenue's Evelyn Marshall. Lest eyelids get in the way of the ultimate goal, cosmetic firms are now touting a frosty white eye shadow to replace the usual blues and greens. Heavily applied, such white eye shadow gives a pale glow all the way up to the nonexistent eyebrows. The end product of all this work is a mysterious, ethereal face showing a few good bones and two enormous orbs floating in a sea of neutral beige...
...fade has been carried onto the beach this summer. Not since the days of the Victorian heroine, when pallor was considered a sign of gentle breeding, has the pale pale look been so sought after. The glowing, suntanned American beauty is being replaced in many places by the unsunkissed miss hiding herself under a ruffly parasol, straight out of Gone With the Wind. "Tanning ages skin," says Evelyn Marshall. "It etches those lines around the eyes and mouth." As another expert put it, "The cordovan look is definitely out, and this applies to the whole body, not just the face...