Hints and tips:
...The huge, rouged, mad-puppet cheeks; the big, expensive dresses; the portly, unsteady, assisted walk, like something operated by invisible spars or strings....
...Stripped of context, the retouched photos of the men, their cheeks rouged and eyes lined with kohl, staring dreamily into the camera like silent-movie stars, look highly effeminate....
...Nine months ago, before the slap across an Israeli soldier’s cheek that changed her life, the world knew little of Ahed Tamimi....
...“The more he bought me, the more my cheek burnt with annoyance and degradation”, she says. What a word to bring you up short — degradation!...
...“It was slightly tongue in cheek,” he says....
...Then – in a twist resembling the ending of Shirley Valentine – he turns his head, and sees Eroshka discussing village matters with his beloved, as if Olenin had never existed....
...There’s half a tonne of beef in your average cow and just two cheeks. Why are they not the most expensive bits?...
...Shirley Temple: The subject of one of Salvador Dali’s paintings satirising the film industry, Temple symbolised Hollywood like none other....
...Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Tynan, Boy George, Peter Cook, Shirley Bassey, even Toby Young and Julie Burchill: there seem to have been so many figures who didn’t care about conventions or fit the mould that...
...Cristina kisses me on both cheeks and sends me – reeling – on my way....
...Chelsey Schill’s glittering serpent, Silja Schindler’s regal princess, Matthias Hoelle’s stately ferryman and old man, Andrew Watts’ virtuosic tongue-in-cheek will-o’-the-wisp – all are impressive performances...
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