In these scenes, Simpson and Yates are played by two actors, Brendan Mackey and Nicholas Aaron, who filmed on location in Peru and in the French Alps, and of whom we often see no more than a pair of peeling cheeks.
Don't get us wrong, we've got nothing against Jeff Koons Baroque Eggg with Bow (~$7 million) or Robert Gober's funky sculpture of musical notes printed across a pair of ass cheeks (~$3 million).
Even then he can't resist collapsing into Proustian digression: "To begin with, as my mouth began gradually to approach the cheeks which my eyes had tempted it to kiss, my eyes, in changing position saw a different pair of cheeks; the throat, studied at closer range as though through a magnifying glass, showed a coarser grain and a robustness which modified the character of the face".
Soon the sound of snapping saplings crackles from the undergrowth, and a face pokes from the treeline: two chocolate eyes, a pair of puffed-out cheeks and a wrinkled muzzle, framed by a mantle of cinnamon fur.
Besides a pair of furiously red cheeks, alcohol gives me heart palpitations and makes me feel as if my skin is hot.
A pair of rosy, healthy cheeks beats that malnourished super-model look any-day.
A dark band above a brighter band might be a pair of eyes above some cheeks.
Straight audiences will likely never have heard of Brent Corrigan, and gay audiences will die of exposure slogging through turgid, sexless dialogue waiting for a glimpse of any male body part that isn't a pair of rapidly pumping ass cheeks.
We stood very close, face to face, and his features were defined by the most sunken pair of cheeks a man could have without whittling away the underlying bones of his skull.
"Above the puckered topography of his bulbous nose and cheeks, a pair of vertical eyes convey a look of cartoon alarm, as if he were not quite sure how he landed in this catastrophe of a face".
He would teeter on stage, perched on a pair of green spike-heeled shoes, face painted ghastly white, cheeks bright red with rouge.
