Word: birthmark
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...piano. And she refuses to accept what is evident to all: that Charlotte, now on the cusp of womanhood, is a dwarf. The townspeople pretend to ignore it. But one fellow, the aging stranger Ludovico D'Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni), sees Charlotte's disability as a sweet eccentricity, like a birthmark or an overbite. Ludovico has been courting Dona Leonor in his fashion, and someday he will be a doting stepfather to the girl. He will propose, won't he? Of course he will...
That's like protesting because of his hair color, way his teeth might crook, or the presence of some unknown birthmark. Like his sexual preference, none of these things make any difference in Gomes' ability...
...percent certain that the person in charge of the committee is the one sitting right in the middle, but be warned: this person almost always has some sort of hideous scar or birthmark that is practically begging to be stared...
Saul is vividly recollected from the old days: Jewish, with springy red hair and a purplish birthmark covering the right half of his face. He is distinguished also by his growing interest in the tribes of Amazonia and their right to survive. The narrator recalls provoking his friend on this subject: "Should 16 million Peruvians renounce the natural resources of three- quarters of their national territory so that 70 or 80 thousand Indians could quietly go on shooting at each other with bows and arrows, shrinking heads and worshipping boa constrictors?" Saul's response is skimpy on particulars but firm...
...coincidence of two events often reveals connections usually hidden. At the same time Gorbachev was visiting the country, the space shuttle Atlantis secretly deployed a spy satellite that can practically pick out his birthmark from orbit...