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Article: Streisand's Nose - In Your Face
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 20, 1994
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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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