Actress Holland Taylor has found that in Ann Richards, the former Texas governor with the cotton candy hair and down-home humor.

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Perusing the five-star reviews in Perfumes, it seems that a good perfume is surprising, individual, abstract, witty, maybe ironic, complex (for example, Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume works because of the juxtaposition of cotton candy and flowers with a masculine patchouli), long-lasting, transformative (it somehow makes the wearer feel different).

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She allows her hair to be teased into a lofty blond arc, a sort of cotton-candy diadem, and her speech, with training, gets heavier and slower, the emphasis landing on selected, morally significant syllables like a hammer hitting an anvil.

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