Word: candidness
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Finally, a word of caution. Each article is written by one House member only. Although they have been urged to be candid and objective, their views are impressionistic...
...names are there. Four familiar-looking Velásquez portraits add their placid luster to the candid Goyas and the anamorphic El Grecos. Glimpsed as a whole, the exhibition has an almost rotogravure quality in the predominant browns and blacks of the backgrounds, the dramatic lighting that seems to spotlight colorful details like the little nosegay on the staff of Ribera's Saint Joseph (opposite). Landscapes are notably missing: Spanish painters were mostly interested in painting people rather than scenery. But religious subjects, redolent of the mystery and aspiration that typified every Spaniard's day-by-day point...
...talcumed nymph lolls whitely against a background of Pepto-Bismol pink, her orange hair providing the final color clash that makes the whole thing undulate provocatively before the eyes. Another, in a great Flanders Field of a poppy-covered hat and a gold choker, stands scornfully akimbo; only the candid bareness of her monolithic bust keeps her from being some long-remembered Miss Gardner scolding the second grade before the class picnic...
...Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler." The Daily Mirror noted that Britain had been "written off" by another American in 1940 - "the rich, fainthearted Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the days of Dunkirk." The Manchester Guardian was less imperious -and more candid: "A former American Secretary of State who looks like an Englishman, but who happens to be a foreigner, voiced opinions which Englishmen only admit in the privacy of their clubs...
...children. Last week, the day of Leslie Connery's scheduled departure from New York, her visas were mysteriously canceled. Two hours later in Moscow, Correspondent Don Connery was summarily informed that he was to be expelled. This time they dropped all pretexts: they did not like his candid coverage of the Cuban crisis, and proclaimed him "unacceptable...