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SPONTANEOUS MIDNIGHT MAKEOVER PARTY
- The Yale Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 103, Number 4, October 2015
- p. 99
- 10.1353/tyr.2015.0005
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9 9 R S P O N T A N E O U S M I D N I G H T M A K E O V E R P A R T Y J O H N H E N N E S S Y Can you believe outside the frame our kids are sleeping through that revel? Boys keep swinging while Alex mixes glammed-up dust for eyelids, cheekbones, and lips. Here’s Bill – young Bowie – synching, Alex’s one success. (What would you expect? His training came on porno-sets, the trick of covering acne on the ass, the oiled chest.) The beauty’s all Bill’s, though: however thick the orange rouge and coral gloss, the green tornado-sky shadow over everyone’s eyes – here even I’m shined up, that’s me, Miss Spleen – Bill’s unconcealed. The dress just amplifies the man it fits – elegant neck, washboard and pecs, all clair-obscur, this photo and the next. ...