Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the first 24 hours of the strike, the students carried 1,000 letters with Randall's own 24? stamp. Such individually designed stamps, some of which depict a dogged-looking Winston Churchill or a determined bulldog, are already bringing $2.40 from philatelists...
Side 2 is devoted entirely to The African Trilogy, which grew out of Diamond's interest in gospel music and his desire to explore its rhythmic roots. Using African beats-more sophisticated than African melodies-Diamond grandly started out to depict the three principal stages in a man's life: birth, maturity, death. Though the trilogy finally grew to six parts, Diamond liked the original title and kept...
...accused the press of using the bombing in an "attempt to discredit student radicals, to depict them as a lunatic fringe of irresponsible terrorists...
...theprotagonist of Five Easy Pieces is only a depressingly immature reassertion of character consistency-he blows town. When what is desperately needed is a fresh way to look at something, we are given something to look at. Apocalyptic world-views are fashionable, and it's a respectable ambition to depict what it is that drives us to the brink. But artistry demands something more, a quality which separates images from visions. Five Easy Pieces is only a photograph of an attitude; its weakness is a reliance on a single, unhelpful, and finally depressing point of view...
Winston Churchill retouching Peter Paul Rubens? During the war, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a TV interviewer, it happened to a painting by Rubens and Artist Frans Snyders that hangs at the P.M.'s country house, Chequers. Although the canvas was supposed to depict Aesop's fable of the lion and the mouse, Churchill could barely discern the mouse. One day he took brush in hand to highlight it. "But it's still difficult to see," Wilson admitted. Would he try to improve it further? "I wouldn't touch up a Rubens " said Wilson, "still...