Nor did I mean to single out
Nero with especial unkindness. Apart from (it has been said) hormonal imbalances in some persons, excesses of life
style have their effects. I might just as well have singled out
poor Elvis in
his last phase. I don't see similar structures in Madeleine Albright's
face. If a female
choice must be made, the late coins of Queen
Victoria would be a better comparandum.
Still, not
very good; you want a short nose as well as small, close-set eyes to compare.
Besides, it was only a passing allusion, merely to a
face I'd seen on the television screen not 15 minutes earlier.
Pat L.
