The artwork, painted by John Napper in 1952, shows the monarch with an extraordinary long neck.

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With her long, slender neck, she resembles a human greyhound, painted in airy strokes and matching the cloudy backdrop behind her.

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And if you are stuck for an evening outfit as the nights grow chillier, don't forget the allure of a simple black cashmere polo-neck with black pants, accessorized with a single long string of pearls.

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The rover was more of a camel, with a knobby-kneed chassis and a long, many-jointed neck, surmounted by a binocular head.

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Couches arose because they were part of the extra-domestic arrangements of her second husband, Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post. (Hence her Washington exile.) He left her when she was pregnant with their second child, falling for a woman whose neck was approximately as long as George's and whose feet were splayed.

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She had a long, fragile neck and a willowy dancer's body that drooped with sadness.

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I've articulated the pleasure of birding, in much the same way, and if only to myself, when I'm alone in the woods and trying to dissect my ability to spend hours with my binoculars focused on something 6 inches long a thousand feet away, my glasses fogging over, and my neck and arms aching.

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