“Put a rouge in the limelight and he will act like an honest man”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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“She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and in her ears she wore two feathered appliances resembling surfcasting jigs especially appetizing to striped bass.”
George V. Higgins
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Sasha Pivovarova by Greg Kadel for Numéro, December/January 2005/06
“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
– George Santayana
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