Article: Streisand's Nose - In Your Face

Barbra Streisand has been a nose revolutionary, a nose nationalist and liberator, a preacher of proboscis pride, a nostro-terrorist, a prophet who saw the pert, snub, freckled, upturned, tidy, tiny, cute little all-American carport-perfection cheerleader popularity of the ideal nose personified by Doris Day back in the 1950s, and she bloodied it.

"I kept my nose to spite my face," she sings in "I'm Still Here," with new lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

No bobbing, no jobbing - at least in the sense of some suburban monument to rhinoplasty. More than 100,000 people a year get nose jobs, and there's nothing mysterious about the rules they're obeying: a bridge descending at a 38-degree angle ...

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