pompadour

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• I got hooked on this song because of its video, in which a gang of pompadoured Japanese bikers dance in a city park. Living With Music: A Playlist by Nic Brown - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
• Yet far more of the portraits of Pompadour were not shown in public at all, destined instead for palatial private decors where they could be enjoyed alone by the King and his cohorts and by her own intimates.
• Whether it's the sex appeal of Lili Sweet, the wild hillbilly antics of Bloodshot Bill, the Brains' ghoulish makeup or the Gutter Demons' Meteor-esque Mohawk pompadours, Montreal psychobilly bands mean business in the looks department.
• A white-faced girl with inky hair gave Speedy a hooded glance of appraisal, while her sullen date glared openly at him; a giggling trio of teenage rockabillys came through with matching pompadours.
• Within four months the king made her marquise de Pompadour and pensioned her husband off to farm in the country.
• Small touches add to the surrealism: a cheap looking miniature in the opening shot to represent Pepa's apartment block, Candela's weird coffeepot-shaped earrings, a pompadoured cab driver whose taxi is decked out with a Mambo theme.
• On September 14th as Marquise de Pompadour she was formally presented at court.
• One morning as they were breakfasting, they glimpsed “an apparition,” as Jane put it, “a buxom girl, very sexy in a tight black satin dress and black satin high-heeled shoes, with long red fingernails, plus a high Pompadour hairdo.” A Covert Affair
• Boucher considered these tapestry cartoons, which belonged to Mine de Pompadour and hung in her chateau at Bellevue, to be among his happiest inventions.
• In real life they looked small, sallow, extravagantly Vaselined, with poofter pompadours and funny shoes.