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The real Donna, on the other hand, was … merely pretty. But no 14s. Donna Edmondson — the Nexus One version — was, as Bono might put it, even better than the real thing.

I knew about airbrushing, of course, but up until that moment had never run up against it in person, and the effect was unsettling. Over the next few weeks and months I thought about the implications. A lot of guys bought Playboy for the articles, of course , and it occurred to me that these men were calibrating their meters according to the image of beauty they saw in those pages.

We all wanted the perfect 10, but thanks to the magic of image editing the bar had been set artificially high. Some of you may not have face-to-face experience with the simulacrum. In the sequence that follows, we see up close and personal how ad agencies at that point in time were transforming the real into the unreal.

If you want to take a skeptical dig or two at what Dove is actually up to here, be my guest. Dove is manufactured by Unilever, a company that seems intent on promoting brands with healthy images. But their portfolio includes Axe body spray and Slim-Fast, two brands that are most assuredly not about come-as-you-are. So draw your own conclusions. Neither is he or she. Salvation is available at a store or salon near you.

Money should be no object. But when we see a picture of a guy hosing himself down with body spray and then having to beat the chicks off with a stick our critical faculties go limp. The pervasive pandering of artificial reality matters because the brain is physically altered by input. If your understanding of how people are supposed to look is dictated by what you see on TV and in magazines, how hard is it going to be to find happiness with a mate who is comparatively ugly?

For starters, it may not be you that needs the extreme makeover. It may be your TV. New York Bangkok Rome L. All the saints came out to play High on blow and drunk on Tuscan wine. There in silks our lady goes Sacred face and a life exposed Burned a generation to the ground. Wonderful article Sam. The bride was discussing how she set everyone in the bridle party up to have makeup done. Man, I love that woman. I want her and nothing standing between our true selves. I want her in the centerfold of my life!

It ponders how society and people deal with the opportunity to not be able to perceive human beauty. Remind me to lend it to you when I see you next week. Thanks for the testimonial. I grew up in the South, where there are women who sneak out of bed before their men are awake so they can put their faces on. Cure: Just stop watching TV and reading glossy magazines. Calvin Trillin was onto something when he predicted the underwear bomber in White House Budget Director Peter Orszag had a baby with a shipping heiress weeks before he got engaged to a news reporter.

Maggie Gyllenhaal considers the complicated politics of "Cinderella" when she watches it with her three-year-old. You may also like 3 Videos. The initial trials in the s were carried out using bi-block FFU sleepers incorporated into a ballastless track area in a tunnel. The London Underground and the Paris and Lille metros have also installed these artificial sleepers.

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In , sleepers from , which had now been in service for 30 years, were again removed and tested by RTRI. FFU is not affected by UV light and retains its technical properties after many years of exposure. The organisation conducted water quality tests with FFU synthetic wood and concluded that the water into which FFU was immersed met the same quality standards as control water.

Perhaps we should consider the wider use of what are claimed to be recyclable synthetic railway sleepers with a proven year. This would surely be beneficial due to their long life on bridges as waybeams, in tunnels, and to carry switches and crossings. The use of recyclable synthetic sleepers is ramping up across the UK rail network. FFU synthetic sleepers were first installed by Network Rail on track and bridges in Ashford, Kent, in , followed by bridges in Rochester and Faversham.

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