In Deptford there are "shoeless children running about and frowsy women gaping at doors".
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The New Peasant DressThese are not the frowsy, floor-length nightgowns you remember from '60s variety shows.
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Camilla, who doesn't like "hot countries," according to Bower, also has her moments, but she is a winningly frowsy inamorata.
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Ms. Merkel was mocked early in her career for frumpy dressing and frowsy hair; a car rental company ran an ad depicting her with windblown hair in a convertible, saying she had finally found the right hairstyle.
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There were no English-language guidebooks and few accounts from those who had traveled past the international port city of Tangier ("frowsy, familiar Tangier, that every tourist has visited for the last forty years," Wharton complained in her book).
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Mine prominently includes, alongside the pieces I've already mentioned, works by Edgar Degas ("Like Life" might justly be picketed were it lacking "The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer," modelled circa 1880 and cast in 1922), Augustus Saint-Gaudens (poignant busts in white marble and in pigmented wax, made in the mid-eighteen-nineties to memorialize the deceased young wife of a patron), Auguste Rodin (the uncanny glass "Mask of Hanako," depicting the face of a Japanese actress, from 1911), and Duane Hanson (from 1969-70 and 1984, hyperrealistic tableaux, starring a frowsy working-class housewife and a weary housepainter, that curiously become ever more affecting as their period looks recede in time).
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Peter Scheldahl, noted in his March 2018 article for The New Yorker about the show "Like Life", "his (Hanson's) hyperrealistic tableaux, starring a frowsy working-class housewife and a weary housepainter, curiously become ever more affecting as their period looks recede in time." Hanson's works are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Smithsonian.
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But it's easy to question some of her career choices. On both her solo records, her producers have dragged her out of her element and into the treacherous waters of corny pop sentiment. They mismatch her with too-fast beats that make Moyet sound frowsy and pedestrian." Bombay: The City Magazine stated: "Alf saw the last trace of Vince Clark influence as ex-Yazoo vocalist Alison Moyet set out on her own.
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She was often cast as an oversexed dowager, a decrepit old hag, and occasionally, a glamorous society dame. Known for her versatility and expressive face,Erickson, Hal Biography (Allmovie notable among her many roles were the gorgeous Miss Prescott in Meet the Mayor (1932), frowsy Jessie Florian in Raymond Chandler's Murder My Sweet (1944), an aunt who has a crush on Oliver Hardy in Laurel and Hardy's The Big Noise (1944), diner waitress Holly in Detour (1945), bawdy Filthy Flora in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946), the determined Mrs. Kraft out to solve a murder in Born to Kill (1947), and as Kirk Douglas’ mother in Champion (1949).
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