IN the old days people used polite terms like "good face for radio", but it's a sign of our increasingly lookist times that we don't bother with euphemisms like that, but just go for the brutal slur "too ugly for telly" or, in acronym, TUFTY.
IN the old days people used polite terms like \"good face for radio\", but it's a sign of our increasingly lookist times that we don't bother with euphemisms like that, but just go for the brutal slur \"too ugly for telly\" or, in acronym, TUFTY.
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by vicky allan
AA Gill started an epidemic of it last week when he attacked the wonderful, fascinating, and actually-quite-pretty-but-grey-haired classicist Mary Beard for being guilty of this sin. Just when we thought the fuss had died down this week, Samantha Brick, a columnist on a London-based tabloid weighs in with another attack on the fabulous Beard, basically reiterating Gill's point and saying this woman really should have been given a make-over before she was allowed to foul our screens.
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In praise of - . TUFTIES.
IN the old days people used polite terms like "good face for radio", but it's a sign of our increasingly lookist times that we don't bother with euphemisms like that, but just go for the brutal slur "too ugly for telly" or, in acronym, TUFTY.
AA Gill started an epidemic of it last week when he attacked the wonderful, fascinating, and actually-quite-pretty-but-grey-haired classicist Mary Beard for being guilty of this sin. Just when we thought the fuss had died down this week, Samantha Brick, a columnist on a London-based tabloid weighs in with another attack on the fabulous Beard, basically reiterating Gill's point and saying this woman really should have been given a make-over before she was allowed to foul our screens.
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