If ...round

O is for Oprah.

Oprah's roundness was more than once the cultural quandary of the moment... she sucked her followers into her roly poly trials, and in the end made roundness more acceptable than ever before, even chic and stylish.

O is for Oprah.

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There's a limit (but it can be pushed) to the angle and fragility of the neck. It should seem plausibly capable of holding up the weight of the head without snapping off; the more precarious the tension, the better though.
So spindle at your own risk, but don't loose your head over it.

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If ...vanity

Revered in the 19th century, but viewed as incompetent in the 20th, George Armstrong Custer's impressive Civil War record was virtually ignored in lieu of what he was much better known for... ~~his fatal bravado at The Battle of Little Big Horn, and his vanity about how drop dead gorgeous he was.

...neither impressed the native Americans

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Directional intent needs to be specified intentionally in order to find a directional bent for your intentions.


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If ...silent

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, was the most taciturn of American leaders ~Some blame his subdued running of the country for the 1929 stock market crash and the resulting decade of depression...

--only he knows for sure, but he's not saying.

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A caricature is merely as series of corrections until no further corrections are necessary. Once there are no more adjustments to be made, the caricature is complete.
...one needs only to learn when to stop correcting things.

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If ...stripes

The White Stripes erupted with a searing blend of punk and blues in the late 90s and continued through the past decade. Meg and Jack White, who were siblings after their marriage, got divorced before they hit it big, and then broke up years later...

They didn't know what love was (they just did as they were told).

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Unless you stretch the form of the head far further than is in your comfort zone, you will never know the caricature that is waiting to rise out of the remains of your drawing.

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If ...scary

There's a fine line between the frightening and the silly. Paul Reubens oft times came perilously close to crossing that Reuben-con with his Pee-wee Herman character; the final assessment being made by the viewer's inner child's threshold for the inane.

I know you are, but what am I ?

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