Word: browed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of Bourdelle's work produces its effect through form alone. Even his expressionistic "Bethoven" has little emotional impact. On the other hand, one can easily appreciate the balance in his "Heracles" between the verticals of the rock against which Hercules braces his forward foot, of his upraised brow and of the line of his head, body and right thigh, and the horizontals of his extended left leg and arm. Less rigid, but little less effective, is the way in which the soft, swelling contours of his "Cloud" are echoed by those of the nude who reclines...
...crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The fragile centerpiece of the upper jaw was flanked by massive cheekbones and a baboon brow ridge, and was married to a sledgehammer lower jaw . . . timidity grafted to courage, sensitiveness to violence, and an abstract mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John Foster Dulles: "His eyes blinked intermittently like an electric bulb loose in its socket...
...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "The president of the Hasty Pudding Club." » Hitler: "Incongruities ran up and down the man. Hitler's massive brow ridge was strikingly out of proportion to the sunken upper jaw which the little mustache was inadequate to coax out. His nose was crudely hacked out, unfinished, a vulgar proboscis...
...blow broke Von Karajan's reading glasses, drove the broken bits into his left eyelid and brow. But after a hurried flight to Paris, where specialists took 20 stitches to close the wounds, the conductor was assured of no permanent eye damage. And back on the Riviera, the flics, using his description, picked up a suspect who, it seemed, had visited the Von Karajans after unsuccessfully trying to break into Brigitte Bardot's home earlier...
...rooms off the main ballroom, a group of partygoers and a small musical combo surrounded Actor Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady's original Henry Higgins. Head bent forward, brow wrinkled in a characteristic Higginsian expression, Harrison was quietly singing I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. Once when he muffed the lyrics, he was immediately prompted by his audience...