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It's harder, at times, to be inventive when you have too much real information about your subject.  However, a full (and invented) background story goes a long way towards feeding visual interest.
...go figure.   

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IF ...farewell

A farewell address that read somewhat like a prophecy, Dwight David Eisenhower's omenizing about the military-industrial complex was more a 'good luck' than a 'good bye'. 
...just like Ike

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If you don't take risks, then you won't fail.  
how boring...

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IF ...train

Jesse, and his brother Frank, James may be the most famous train robbers of the 19th century.  Shunning alcohol, the fastidious Jameses only rarely robbed the passengers... just the trains.
Where they put all those trains is beyond me.
...like corn in a field

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It's easy to default to reproducing what has always been.  Even when working within a limited parameter, it's important to strive to draw only the things you yourself would enjoy to seeing, ~~particularly if you've not seen them before.

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IF ...wild

The 'quiet' Beatle notwithstanding, George Harrison was quite able to make the girl fans in the audience go wild by breaking out into a two-second jig, shaking his hair or tossing a vague wave outwards ~~when the mood struck him.  
(...and he often did it wild his guitar gently wept).

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Here's the other fabs from before ~in group mode:
(click fab to see individual post).

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The hands often echo the face, and the fingers linger to be certain.

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IF ...swim

He'd like to be, under the sea, in an octopus' garden (with you)...Ringo Starr only wrote about 2 and a half songs as a Beatle.  ~~By far the best of the lot was 1969's Octopus's Garden where he could shout and swim about.
...don't pass it by.

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Most faces start up slowly, but persistence and time heals all wounds.

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IF ...eye glasses

Not the most familiar Beatle look for John Lennon.  In 1966, fresh from putting quit to touring and newly returned from filming an English Army war film, John arrived back in London with shortened hair and a new style of spectacles ~which came to be his classic mien.  Imagine that!
... nothing was real 

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IF ...yesterday

At a mere 22 years of age, Paul McCartney dreamed up the standard that became the most recorded Beatle song ever  ...but had he kept it's original title: 'Scrambled Eggs' it may not have had the appeal it does.
It wouldn't be half the song it was meant to be.

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Who are these people?
really...

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IF ...talent

Possibly the world's most talented left-handed vegetarian, Leonardo da Vinci had a flair for an enormous set of disciplines: painter, musician, engineer, writer, botanist, architect, inventor, mathematician and sculptor to name a few.  
...oot sterces peek ot dekil eh dna

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Caricature is a type of facial fanaticism; the more physiognomical the zealot, the more informed is the the under structure and the outer twists.
No room for the feature bigots.

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IF ...whisper

Long before her public mortification on the scaffold in front of the stocks, one can assume the whispers concerning Hester Prynne were rife and malicious.  Malevolent mutterings notwithstanding, Hester held her own and her scarlet letter became her badge of honor.
speak softly and carry a capital letter

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Caricature is a way to force the eclectic to the forefront of even the most mundane faces.

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