Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter that he had dedicated to Begin's granddaughters. For 25 minutes Begin visited Sadat. A half-hour later, Sadat suddenly appeared, without warning, at the door of Begin's cabin to return the call. To reciprocate the gift of photographs, Begin presented Sadat with a medallion by Israeli Artist Yachov Agam. Its theme: "The Dream of Peace." Then Begin suggested, "Let's both go tomorrow night to hear President Carter address the Congress." Sadat agreed. Already, Carter's aides were making the arrangements for the trip down from the mountain to tell the world what the three leaders...
...mature woman in Heart Beat. The movie tells the story of the late Beat author Jack Kerouac and of Neal Cassady, a onetime car thief and the model for Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road. Spacek plays Carolyn, a well-bred commercial artist who is married to Neal. To research the role, Spacek read a 1,400-page manuscript written by Carolyn and concluded that she was a well-educated, glamorous, "classy lady." Portraying her, reflects the new, womanly Spacek, is a challenge. "Before, I've always stretched backward in time," she says. "This...
...Allen's Interiors. The contrast is all in favor of Altman. The people in A Wedding are capable of bursting their schematic bounds, of bouncing into wayward life and, in an odd way, undercutting the director's underlying message of disapproval. In the end, Altman the observant artist manages to subvert Altman the highly conventional social critic. -Richard Schickel
...started with Esquire in 1969 with the intent of doing it for a year... I ended up doing it for three years. After that I didn't see a movie for a few years. I really didn't want to be a critic. Most people who are artists are kind of hacks; I was a hack trying to become an artist. All the while [at Esquire] I was fishing around for a new way to write about films. I had a kind of prejudice about being a critic even while I was one." Accordingly, he does not plan to return...
...kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person's strength and sense of self before he or she ever gets to the stage of being an artist, and again after he or she does, against all odds, become a creator...