The graffiti in the tunnels, the creaking of the elevated trains, the performers that filter in and out: It's really the only place where the rich and poor, the ugly and beautiful, rub shoulders.

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Beautiful people had to wear ugly masks to hide their good looks.

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Michael Gross, author of "Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, " told CNN that such concerns were irrelevant to fashion's main job of shaping aspirations to sell clothes.

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It is not fair to the beautiful to force them to wear ugly masks.

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And historically the ugly swoons have become beautiful swans.

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And those returns are as ugly as the best performing returns are beautiful.

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She stumbles into a job at a joint called Coyote Ugly where the main attraction is the beautiful women bartenders.

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It may be the beautiful game, but football's finances are looking ugly.

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You ought to be able to attract fortune and prosperity with beautiful and asthetically pleasing ads more than you can with ugly ads.

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