Dr Wilson and Dr Daly speculate that the simple act of regarding beautiful women is able to engage and manipulate the male brain's reward centres.

ECONOMIST: Evolutionary biology

In a video clip, Robert Redford - her co-star in The Way We Were - joked that he'd been warned she was "a pain, " but discovered that was "totally engaging to act with, beautiful, thorough and skilled".

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It's a spiritual act to sell something beautiful you've crafted on Etsy.

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As a result, he came to act for the Airplane and also the Grateful Dead, It's a Beautiful Day and Santana.

ECONOMIST: William Coblentz

"Michael Vaughan is a class act and will be remembered by Yorkshire members and supporters around the world for his beautiful stroke play and, of course, his success in leading England to Ashes glory in 2005, " said the county's chief executive Stewart Regan .

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With Paolo Bonacelli as a priest who urges the assassin to take God into his heart, and the beautiful Violante Placido as a prostitute who falls in love with the assassin after he performs an act of sexual gallantry that no man experienced with prostitutes would likely perform.

NEWYORKER: The American