Word: depictions
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...movie is vivid enough when it deals with the large, abstract issues of the case--the corruption of justice, anti-Semitism, and the moral vacuum of French society at the turn of the century. But when it tries to depict the people involved, the result is often ludicrous. At times, as when Dreyfus lumbers across the parade ground where he has just been stripped of his rank and yells "I'm innocent," at the top of his lungs, the picture seems almost embarassing. The fault here is that of Fritz Kortner, who plays Dreyfus. His acting style is so restrained...
...banish the bottles and partridges from the tables, for the painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet, 27, France's most popular painter (TIME, March 21), whose portraits depict the leanest and hungriest figures since Picasso's Frugal Repast...
...From these words we can also see clearly how shamefully we have been led astray under the papacy. It did not depict Christ in so friendly a fashion as did the dear Prophets, Apostles, and Christ Himself, but portrayed Him so horribly that we were more afraid of Him than of Moses . . . If that is not darkness, then I do not know what darkness...
...depict Adam and Eve (see cut) Brancusi returned not to full-bloom Renaissance goddesses but to woman as a primitive symbol of fertility, and Adam as the product of his primitive tools, axed out of wood with a neck suggesting both a tree trunk and a wine press. In a narrow smoothly polished pebble, Brancusi sees the genesis of the fish form; expanded in his streamlined Fish, done in blue-grey marble, it becomes the prototype of all fish, hovering in space as if water were freshly washing past...
...right to discipline oneself so as not to be disciplined by others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly to continue to cling . . . Already abroad we are being stricken from the role of great peoples...