Michel Camdessus's final days at the IMF's helm are most vividly remembered for a face-full of anti-globalization cream pie he got at the UNCTAD meeting in Bangkok last month.

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After Jordany Valdespin's game-ending grand slam last month, Buck clobbered him in the face with a whipped-cream pie.

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Murdoch is lucky that a prankster got close enough to spatter him with shaving cream from a failed pie-in-the-face attempt.

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These works are certainly in your face, but whether they have the satirical impact of more than a shaving-cream pie is debatable.

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Cosmopolitan's health and beauty editor Laura Bacharach recommends face-lifting creams which she says are "a more sophisticated version of egg whites and haemorrhoid cream used by Hollywood film stars".

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He commandeered the pie-smashing duties last season, elevating the act of slamming whipped cream onto one's face into a science.

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