Word: cherubically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Painter Sutherland went to Chartwell last August for the first sitting, the Prime Minister asked: "Are you going to paint me as a tiger or cherub?" Watching the old man take his seat on a large dais, Sutherland made up his mind. "He took up a position as a tiger. The lip was out. The head was challenging. The eyes were looking direct." Then and there, he made his choice between Churchill the benign and humorous and Churchill the uncompromising. "It seemed to me essential," Sutherland explained, "that Churchill should be portrayed with a certain degree of intransigence-with...
...lower center is a bloated, hog-faced cherub swilling strong drink (explains Grosz: "I come from a drinking family"). At his left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World...
...Utmost. Solid and sure, and cheerful as a cherub, 58-year-old Nurse Haussknecht is on a three-month tour of U.S. cities, showing and explaining a series of colored slides of the Lambaréné mission, shaking hands and smiling and answering questions. She tells how old Dr. Schweitzer still makes the last rounds of all the patients in the hospital every night, because two years ago one of them, in reply to his morning greeting, said that he had not slept at all the night before, "waiting for you to say good night...
...Spitting Sound. Dennis, a pink, cherub-faced man, takes his music seriously. His lips are insured for ?10,000, and he avoids all sports except table tennis-a ping-pong ball could hardly damage him, he feels. As for his horn-playing technique, modest Dennis has a simple explanation...
...director made use of the fact that Italian children are among the world's most charming and filled the screen with them. He drew on a universal sympathy for the underdog and respect, if not reverence, for priests, bishops, and popes. He wove these around a chubby cherub and a scrawny donkey and released a picture that one can only call effective. It is neither good nor bad, but merely a well-illustrated sermon...