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/ˈbɹaʊnˌfeɪs/ · noun
A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race..
The problem isn’t so much Lancaster’s unconvincing brownface makeup — though it looks as if it had been applied by the same heavy laborers who blacktopped Laurence Olivier for “Othello” — as it is the extremely un-Leonardian softness of his presence.
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Brownface means A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race..
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The problem isn’t so much Lancaster’s unconvincing brownface makeup — though it looks as if it had been applied by the same heavy laborers who blacktopped Laurence Olivier for “Othello” — as it is the extremely un-Leonardian softness of his presence.
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