Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photograph of his close friend Nicole Bouban (pictured) is the most visually compelling portrait displayed. Reclining on a pillow whose filigreed embroideries of butterflies merge with the platinum waves of her hair, Bouban's marmoreal face achieves the vacuity of expression associated with mannequins or dolls. Her smooth skin seems carved out of soap. But Wols's depiction is more than a trite objectification of a woman's face. Though she is reclining, this is not an image of repose. He effects the same response as that engendered in his self-portraits: the image is impossible to penetrate. Aside from...
...photograph of his close friend Nicole Bouban (pictured) is the most visually compelling portrait displayed. Reclining on a pillow whose filigreed embroideries of butterflies merge with the platinum waves of her hair, Bouban's marmoreal face achieves the vacuity of expression associated with mannequins or dolls. Her smooth skin seems carved out of soap. But Wols's depiction is more than a trite objectification of a woman's face. Though she is reclining, this is not an image of repose. He effects the same response as that engendered in his self-portraits: the image is impossible to penetrate. Aside from...
...macaroni and cheese ($6.95) successfully updates the old standard with three kinds of cheese, and while the Egg salad sandwich ($5.25) is somewhat dry, the thin, skin-still-on french fries ($2.25) combine crispiness and tenderness to perfection. The frappes ($3.50) and ice cream sodas ($2.95) both made with Herrell's ice cream, are sublime. Johnny's extensive menu also features wide varieties of salads ($3.25-8.25) and egg dishes ($4.25-8.95) and they serve their pancakes and french toast...
...Miami Beach without sunscreen fair skin will burn in less than 15 minutes...
...anachronistic. Since the civil rights movement, education and economic success have increasingly trumped light skin and the right pedigree as black status symbols. Graham shows how easily ambitious outsiders can now join the black upper class. He boasts that he belongs to the Boule, a group of "the most accomplished, affluent and influential black men" in the nation. If the Boule were really all that exclusive, a social climber like him would never have...