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Portrait: John Terry  Posted By Brian Phillips On December 18,
2007 @ 3:43 pm In Portraits | 5 Comments  The Structure of His
Face  Is in three layers, with each outer layer fitting slightly
too largely over the layer it contains, so that the overall
shape is one of sculptural creasing and drape, like the skirt of
the Winged Victory. At the far-underneath level, the skeleton
level, his head is fox-sleek and trim, but is then covered up
with muscles and skin that rest on it only incidentally, like a
sheet thrown over a sleeper. And on this loose, folded, drooping
and lightly lined face, the expression he wears is once again
something too vague and big for the form, something in the
downturned corners of his eyes and the upturned corners of his
mouth, in the sleepy smirk and look of dull command, in the
impatient eagerness to please, suggesting the spirit of a giant
lounge singer in the body of a suffering mouse, or the collision
of a happy drunk and a