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...Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher and Edward V. Mills, chairman of the Host Committee for the convention, took one horrified look and sprang into action. "I wouldn't say," reckoned the mayor, "that it's a very healthy way to depict the Republican Party." Eying the photo sharply, he concluded: "These three guys look like they've been kicked." Chairman Mills, noting that the cover was selected by Art Director Leo Mannheimer under the supervision of Public Relations Man Bruce Ellis, added: "These three guys in the statue were supposed to be agreeing on something...
...this effort to pierce through outward appearances that brought Rembrandt to his greatest insights in works such as The Denial of St. Peter. To depict the awesome moment, Rembrandt succeeded in portraying the intense inner struggle by relentlessly focusing the servant girl's light on the proud yet suffering features of Peter. In The Bridal Couple, probably painted the year before he died at 63, Rembrandt could still return boldly to another moment of drama for every man, raise it to the level of a welling symbol of devotion, acceptance and proud communion...
Buzzing off from the nectarine, Stephen returns to England to suffer some more. His paintings for a war memorial shock the village elders because they depict Naked Men and Women. His most masterful masterpieces declared obscene by an ignorant magistrate, Stephen lurches off to London, coughing, and takes refuge in a London boarding house run by a little Cockney girl of his acquaintance. In Cronin's rendition, Jenny speaks Cockney as if she had learned it from a talking book, but Stephen finds "something in her, a simple quality of womanhood, of homely warmth," marries her and settles down...
...started back in January, when the producers decided it might be nice to do an entire hour-and-a-half program from Harvard to depict an American university at mid-century...
...most mysterious master in the history of Japanese art was a printmaker who signed himself Sharaku, meaning depict pleasure. One spring day in 1794 Sharaku entered a guidebook and print shop on the edge of Edo's red-light district carrying some stark, needle-sharp portraits of Kabuki actors. The shopkeeper agreed to publish his drawings, so for the next ten months Sharaku depicted the pleasures of the stage. His prints sold badly, and Sharaku vanished, never to produce again. He left behind a body of work as exquisite as it was small: two painted fans, 17 drawings...