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This face was not so much ageless as entirely unformed: you felt that it would still light up at the sight of a new chemistry set, or a choc-ice.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
For Susan Mossman Taylor Forever Ago
Alex Dobrenko • 23 cards
At the entrance to the enclosure was a podium above which a muralled face with cascading hair waited with pen and paper, making appointments for makeovers. Her eyes were meticulously designed, broad streaks of shadow, temple-bound, a layer of silver studs along a light-blue background, and beneath this cool green eyes staring nonchalantly out, ackn
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
They live in a society that glorifies youth and fears it at the same time, no doubt about it.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
As things happened, however, Queen Elizabeth, a Scotswoman with a natural predilection for tweeds and tartans, pursued a homely upper-class native dowdyism for her entire long life (her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, following her), attended by a suitably homegrown couturier, Norman Hartnell. Hartnell laid down his philosophy of dressing royalty as
... See morePaul Johnson • Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
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