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...talk? The unibrow went out with the mastodon. The trendiest Japanese are plucking their eyebrows into razor-thin lines, and they're painting their faces too: 60% of young men polled in Tokyo said they would use an eyebrow pencil. "I use eyeliner to make my eyes appear bigger when I go out," says a computer engineer nicknamed "Tomo...
...spirit. "I felt the power," she says when relating how she overcame some crisis or other in her life. "Believe in yourself, and nothing can stop you." That strength sustained her when she nearly died after being circumcised at the age of about five with a dirty razor blade. It saw her through her desert escape and the vagaries of a frenetic life on the international modeling circuit. Dirie wrote about all this in Desert Flower, her 1998 autobiography, which topped the British, German (1.75 million copies) and Dutch best-seller lists. In Desert Dawn, which was written with Jeanne...
There was a mirror on the shelf, and a razor and shaving cream. I thought that was odd. Wouldn't he do that at home? But I guess I figured that a man who had a perfectly good split-level and then built an underground room only half a mile away had to be kind of loo-loo. My father had a nice way of describing people like him: "The man's a character, that...
...father Alex, who supported his early career as a player with his presence but never his congratulations - even when he'd scored four goals. "He was a born winner and a bad loser," says a former fellow striker. Ferguson won a reputation for belligerence and the nickname "razor elbows" for the barely legal style with which he created the time and space he needed to fire a shot on goal. A champion of "the beautiful game" as a manager, Ferguson was never a real beauty on the pitch, and it's easy enough to see the elbows still at work...
...String Theophany: Adoration Series 1998 --.” Using translucent Mylar architectural plans, Johnson mixes garish hues and iconographic objects, the most provocative being sliced sections of womens’ g-string underwear. He attaches the garments to the surface with tacks and red-painted razor blades, surrounding them with playing cards, corn plasters, stickers and Band-Aids. The g-strings assume any number of shapes, from a praying mantis in “Marcel: Please Don’t Feed the Mantis” to a marionette gothic knight in “Wenceslas Puppet...