Eyewear has been biting its tongue, biding its time, and being mum, on the topic of the American-Russian spy scandal that has gripped certain sections of the media and public this past week. Given the relative ineptitude of these Rocky and Bullwinkle -style spooks, and the lack of any atom-smashing-secrets purloined, the focus of the story has increasingly been on the pneumatic young Russian, Anna Chapman , pictured, formerly married to a British chap, who described her as the most beautiful woman he had ever laid eyes on. This red-haired 21st Century Fox, with her Wonder Woman physique (described in the Guardian , tactlessly, as "bowling balls") - or, as one paper gushed, "Victoria's Secret figure" - seems to have raised eyebrows merely by fulfilling a casting couch need for a Russian Spy - in short, she is a Central Casting wet dream. But drop those arched brows, lads and ladettes - and stop licking thy lips. Many -perhaps most - women are attractive, ...
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