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COLUMN: Definition of beauty tainted over time
From: University Wire
Date: 20050427
Author:Maegan McGowen
Maegan McGowen
University Wire
04-27-2005
(The Lariat) (U-WIRE) WACO, Texas -- Beauty is one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in existence. It's a two-syllable word that haunts humanity.
Women long for it, a thousand ships were launched to recapture it, and the world succumbs to it.
Charles Reade said, "Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
Beauty wields its power over men and women alike, but far more often, women become the victims of a modern and corrupt idea of beauty.
The body of a woman sells you cigars and stilettos. The perfection of her bleached white smile and air brushed ...
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