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He could see what was happening to himself as he looked at his well-beloved Nancy with her shimmering hair and he realized the hair needed no prettying or hairdos.

"From there, we walked into the athletes' lounge and began combing our hair and prettying ourselves up for the ceremony," Norman recalled at the Olympic Village here this week.

He walked out of the graveyard, put his hat back on, and began to inspect some of the first spring flowers, to see if any of them might do for prettying up the two graves.

Prettying up the business of selling a person like one might sell a farm animal with euphemisms and nice decorating didn't make this any less a distasteful scenario-just as calling a vole a "furry field scavenger" doesn't make it any less a pest.

Jason Lipshutz of Billboard commented on the clip, "The video matches Robyn's gorgeous pop vocals with a fast-moving account of her life on the road, which includes riding roller coasters, prettying up for photo shoots and jamming out with her headphones on in a hotel room.