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Monday, July 2, 2012

239. Pulchritude


From, "The Elusive Girl From Ipanema," by Thomas Vinciguerra, The Wall Street Journal, June 30-July 1, 2012:

Clearly, this is art for the ages. But why?  [re the popularity of the song Girl from Ipanema]
One reason is the girl of the title. The embodiment of sultry pulchritude, she is also utterly unobtainable: "But each day when she walks to the sea/She looks straight head, not at me."

Pulchritude: beauty
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