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  • In the very same way that they sell cars - by showing media images of lonely scholars wearing thick, hornrimmed glasses, while dummies are being flocked by hoards of beautiful women.

    The Conservative Corruption of Progressive Thought Wattree 2010

  • Its easy to, hornrimmed glasses a plain shirt and jacket with a concealed gun underneath.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “What to be…” 2007

  • My friend D, for instance, who had hornrimmed glasses and too-short polyester plaid pants.

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2007

  • He has Greg Behrendt, that guy who wrote that He's Just Not That Into You book and some new one about break-ups, on and, between his over-highlighted blonde hair, half-hornrimmed glasses, and fake tan, he has to be the faggiest fag to ever fag it up in Fagville.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • He has Greg Behrendt, that guy who wrote that He's Just Not That Into You book and some new one about break-ups, on and, between his over-highlighted blonde hair, half-hornrimmed glasses, and fake tan, he has to be the faggiest fag to ever fag it up in Fagville.

    Do People Not Have Mirrors Anymore? 2005

  • Also, putting away the white short sleeved shirts, hornrimmed glasses and pocket protectors really help.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • She was only supposed to look like a smart woman, with her hornrimmed glasses and rediscovered brown hair.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2003

  • On the screen, the tourist program talks about giant squids attacking lifeboats during the Second World War, offers up a parade of archival photos as evidence: human legs, puckered with fist-sized conical wounds where hornrimmed suckers cored out gobbets of flesh.

    Starfish 1999

  • He was trying to look awfully casual about the search for the number; he was certain the lady in the corner — Lasko's secretary — had eyes like lasers beneath those heavy brows and hornrimmed glasses with which she could bum straight through the telephone book to the page of K's he was scouring, and then smile meanly and go tell the world.

    the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984

  • He was trying to look awfully casual about the search for the number; he was certain the lady in the corner — Lasko's secretary — had eyes like lasers beneath those heavy brows and hornrimmed glasses with which she could bum straight through the telephone book to the page of K's he was scouring, and then smile meanly and go tell the world.

    The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984

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