Word: autoportrait
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...explain the necessity of killing 3 spies, guerrillas and Israelis, give a detailed demonstration of military tactics, and dress down his Foreign Minister, -who, notes the commentator dryly, turned up dead in the Nile two weeks later. To those new to Big Daddy, French Director Barbet Schroeder's Autoportrait seemed to be an African rendering of Titus Andronicus. For three weeks last whiter, Schroeder and his crew tried to capture Big Daddy on film. Amin himself planned and supervised each day's shooting, improvising enthusiastically to illustrate his ideas. By turns charming and cruel, shrewd and funny, Amin...
Director Heil will hang a photograph of each subject beside his autoportrait. Says he: "The painter, when he stands ... before a mirror, is for once scot-free. . . If he does not quite like his face, he can subtly improve on it. ... Comparison with the 'objective' photographs will let us detect this easily...
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