Summary
Whether in people or things, Beauty is the most controversial subject of them all: in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations only 'death' has more entries in the index. But while Sir Thomas Browne's 'uncomfortable night of nothing' is an unarguable certainty, there is always a good deal of disputing about aesthetics.
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On the Trail of Beauty
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On the trail of BeautyBeauty at the V&AFrom 2 December to 27 February 2005In desolate Ventnor on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, alongside 'antique' shops selling yellowed and scratched plastic buckets and broken digital clocks, there is a hairdresser with a fascia board that elegiacally proclaims 'Beauty'. The world's largest cosmetics business runs a glo...See the full content of this document
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