Word: pompadour
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...attack on George Wallace's physical characteristics is disgusting [Sept. 13]. The reference to his "pouty lips, upswept pompadour and downswept jowls" only reveals the deep poverty of the quality of press reporting in our country...
With his pouty lips, upswept pompadour and downswept jowls, he bore scant resemblance to the lissome heroine of NBC's comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Yet sure enough, there was George Wallace in living color at Jeannie's usual time, dispensing his own brand of sugar-sweet demagoguery in his first nationwide TV appeal. For all the contrast, the substitution of George for Jeannie was bizarrely apt. For like the star of the show-a genie-Wallace is a specter that both major parties would prefer to see back in the bottle...
Died. Dorothy Gish, 70, sister of Lillian, who often teamed with the famous silent-screen star in the earliest days of motion pictures, appeared in more than 25 films, including Orphans of the Storm (1922), Madame Pompadour (1927), and numerous Broadway plays; of bronchial pneumonia; in Rapallo, Italy...
Later, his imitative successors managed to make even sensualism a fraud. Contrary to legend, Louis XV's notorious Deer Park, explains De Gramont, was devoted to rather small-scale lechery-"more of a tired businessman's retreat than a royal orgy-house." Worse, Madame de Pompadour was, by Louis' testimony, cold as a coot, though she plied herself with aphrodisiacs of hot chocolate laced with vanilla, truffles and celery soup. She spent most of her energies keeping official appointments and answering as many as 60 letters a day. Her rewards were the unglamorous ailments of the busy...
...sitters, La Tour was the most democratic of tyrants. Portraits of the King's daughters were never finished-in order to punish them for failing to keep appointments. La Tour once threatened to walk out of his studio when the King tried to watch him sketching la Pompadour. "My talent," he proudly maintained, "belongs to me." Nowhere was it better displayed than in his self-portraits, in which the illusion of reality is so strong, marveled one 18th century critic, that "it seems as though nature had painted itself." One of the three that survive, showing La Tour...