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GIVING kids a wee Dinky toy these days will get you a curled lip but you can't better Dundee's finest export, The Beano and The Dandy.

After all, the curled lip and raised eyebrow are among the least attractive features on a broadcaster's face.

In a culture of ornament, manhood is defined by appearance, by youth and attractiveness, by money and aggression, by posture and swagger and 'props,' by the curled lip and petulant sulk and flexed biceps, by the glamour of the cover boy and by the market-bartered 'individuality' that sets one astronaut or athlete or gangster above another," Faludi writes in her book, excerpted in the current issue of Newsweek.

Mourinho, however, could start a fight in an empty room with his attitude and his curled lip.

It was another magnificent moment from the great one and as the ball kissed the back of Vegh's net, O'Neill sprung wildly to his feet and almost ended up out cold - his head crashing against the curled lip of the dugout roof.

People remembered the young man, who embodied youth with his highcollared denim jackets, greased hair, curled lip, liquorice stick legs and guitar.

So irritating, in fact, that your own - rather more genuine - pleasant expression quickly turns into a curled lip affair when confronted with the corporate simper.