GRGR(30) 671.12 : ' your true face '

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 9 17:42:30 CDT 2000


Main Entry: fa·cade
Variant(s): also fa·çade /f&-'säd/
Function: noun
Etymology: French façade, from Italian facciata, from faccia face, from 
(assumed) Vulgar Latin facia
Date: circa 1681
1 : the front of a building; also : any face of a building given special 
architectural treatment <a museum's east facade>
2 : a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect
[facade illustration]


>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
>   "... a film, we have not learned to see ... its now a closeup of the 
>face, a face we all know ---" (760)
>
>   "don't wanna talk/talk about jesus/i just wanna see his face ..." (the 
>rolling stones, 1972)
>
> > I count twelve occurrences of the word 'face' between 669.1 and 671.24.
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