The carte d'identité describes her face as oval (ovale) and, more strangely, her nose as average (moyen), with a régulier bridge and an ordinaire base.
"Kim Novak just became the first presenter to announce a winning movie that best describes her face" said one tweeter, very much typifying the kind of comments that made 'Kim Novak' a trending topic throughout the ceremony.
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A German visitor in the 1590's described "her face oblong, fair and wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose, a little hooked, her lips narrow and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar)." With the possible exception of Victoria, no British monarch in the past four centuries has so dominated her era.
But when she does, they describe her face as looking like "dirty linoleum" and tell her to put her makeup back on, singing: "If you get up an hour earlier, you could make yourself much girlier".
My mother weighs 90 pounds"), and the crinkly-eyed smile and lopsided grin that long ago prompted one wag to describe her face as looking like "Diane Sawyer's pressed against a windshield" are the very essence of her idiosyncratic spark, the one that makes it hard to take your eyes off her, the one her teachers were too dumb to see.
Mrinal Sen, who directed her in Antareen (1994), compared her to Sophia Loren and described her face as "a landscape of desolation".
A Time profile, from July of 1987, titled "Prom Queen of Soul," describes her "impeccable face, sleek figure, and supernova smile," like "a Cosby kid made in heaven," before arguing that Houston represents an "overdue vindication of that neglected American institution: the black middle class".
Eric Redman, the president and chief executive of Summit Power, describes her as "the public face of the project".
In his diary he describes her as having an "empty face that wore its emptiness openly".
She had already published a volume of poetry and a memoir, "Poker Face," which describes her coming-of-age in a family of gamblers (her siblings Howard Lederer and Annie Duke are two of the world's best poker players).
