Up Tenth and a block to Eleventh and Q Streets was once a High's store where, when Caesar was a boy, a pint of cherry-vanilla ice cream cost twenty-five cents, and farther down Tenth was French Street, with a two-story house with his mother's doilies and a foot-long porcelain black puppy just inside the front door.
"I fell in love with the details," she said of the moldings, decorative fireplace, 11-foot ceilings and peculiar bathroom, which has turquoise-painted brick walls, a 13-foot ceiling, exposed beams, old bathroom tiles and an extra-long porcelain tub.
So he designed a 6-foot-tall, 53-foot-long porcelain-enamel futuristic vision of New York, which he decided to make a gift to the city.
She is tall and gangly, with porcelain skin, long butterscotch hair that seems crimped, as if from a time before curling irons, and smallish eyes that often look as if they were squinting.
It's inadvertently hilarious that Eminem scores in this way; with his long, noble nose and porcelain skin, he could be one of the Mies van der Rohe structures on the Cranbrook campus.
She isn't more than 10, her hair curly and long, skin a pale porcelain brown, a delicate vivacious face which will outlast beauty, and inexhaustible energy that keeps her jumping on the bed as if it were a trampoline, until her mother, Josephine Baker, finishes her telephone call.
Lucille Ball actually started her career as a fashion model, and with her porcelain skin, long legs, and that unforgettable hair, it's no surprise.
Balfe, with her flawless skin and long neck, resembles a porcelain swan, and Heughan's chiseled features are tempered with kind eyes and shy smiles.
"Porcelain" has long been the golden standard of gorgeous skin in Korea, as Scaachi Koul recently pointed out in a Buzzfeed article about the coded racist language of skincare ads.
The meal was served in a porcelain canoe so long that my banquette mate had to shuffle to the left.
