Grace Jones: Fame
Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 30 September 1978
THE INSTANT reaction is to scoff at someone as blatantly marketable as Grace Jones. An astonishingly beautiful model, she prompts writers to haul their most purple animal adjectives out of the thesaurus to evoke her lithe, panther-esque (whoops) charms.
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