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September 19, 2008

What's Wrong With This Picture?

The post office has released a new stamp, honoring Bette Davis. But a certain once-glamorous, and once-ubiquitous, artifact appears to be missing.

Davis_300dpi Bette_Davis_eyes

More comparisons here, here, and here. Great book on the lost glamour of smoking here.

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