In 1980, "preppy" referred to an exotic, rarified species that needed decoding, and a tongue-in-cheek peek behind the duck blind helped the rest of the world make sense of these strange, popped-collar creatures in their Nantucket Reds.
What's striking is how Simic keeps you from feeling squirrelly as you encounter these recurring females -- they are straight out of central casting -- even when one, "prim and rosy-cheeked," has just "peeked" from a bridal-store window.
The writing is personal, the reviews varied and timely, the tongue-in-cheek humor always peeking out from under the surface (see columns like "Bookslut in Training," "CookBookSlut," "Mystery Strumpet"), and a great blog page separates rumor from fact most of the time.
I'll pay millions of bucks for just a peek of their cheeks.
But the plaster is also layered on thick in places, lumpy and textured, or spread so thin that scratchy patches of gauze peek through the cheeks on their faces.
And I never, at any point, fully see his face, even if I can peek through his mouth hole and see the weathered cheeks of an African American man.
After Campbell wipes all the lickspittle lipstick off his cheek, perhaps he'll get around to giving the American public a peek at his thoughts on the future of our greatest art museum.
In other contexts, Mr. Glass's allusions to the past -- the snippets of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that peek through "The Civil Wars," for example -- were amusingly tongue-in-cheek.
Be sure that you are applying the blindfold so that contestant cannot peek through the area between the bottom of the blindfold and their cheeks.
More than once, I sneaked a peek at other audience members to see if they noticed the tears rolling down my cheeks, only to find that many of them were crying silently, too.
How can I preserve those cheeks before a tiny jawline peeks through?
