Nature has a more restorative presence in "The Wind Will Carry Us" ("Bad ma ra khahad bord, " 1999), also about the beauty of life in the shadow of death.

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So there we are, the grotesque grabbing on to beauty, beauty embraced by the grotesque, the light surrounded by the shadow, our lives rounded by a little sleep.

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Olympus' Beauty Make-up mode will let you apply everything from eyeliner to eye shadow and rouge.

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Eleven Magic Filters add a range of spectacular effects to both stills and video, and Beauty Mode with Make-up lets users easily apply everything from eyeliner to eye shadow and blush to subjects.

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Additional features include Beauty Make-up mode, which allows users to easily apply everything from eyeliner to eye shadow and blush to subjects as well as Smart Panorama which lets users take a dynamic panorama of up to 360-degrees, simply by moving the camera from side to side or up and down.

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