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...presence. That effect can be salutary: it is a unique way to bypass political party organizations and challenge entrenched incumbents. But in the process, the techniques of political image makers often work in the service of distortion-slices of life that belie real life, conversations that never took place, facial appearances as cosmetic as Hollywood's, life-and-death issues disposed of in ten seconds. In the extreme hypothesis of Writer Richard Goodwin, once an aide to the much-televised Kennedys, TV is a way in which "you could run a candidate who is maybe in a mental hospital...
...affected side of the face sags, the eyebrow droops and the mouth hangs open. The victim of facial paralysis, which results from damage to facial nerves by injury or surgery, often finds it difficult to eat or speak and impossible to close one eye. Worse, he loses the ability to communicate by facial expression, so that an attempt to smile may result in a terrifying grimace, an effort at laughter in the appearance of intense suffering. For many years, facial paralysis has been uncorrectable. Lately, however, surgeons have been experiencing success with several new operations...
...next eight years, portrait painting absorbed most of Porter's energies. Attacking portraiture with his customary canny vigor, Porter tried to speed up the normally tedious process and devised a simply constructed portable camera obscura. By projecting the subject's facial outline onto paper, Porter could, in 15 minutes, trace a likeness, fill in the features, and collect...
...children. He personifies the careful diplomat. A Democrat, he successfully served under four Presidents. When he retired last year, a group of the nation's most prestigious foreign policy practitioners gave him an elaborate luncheon. He sat through the customary paeans, never raising an eyebrow or twitching a facial muscle. It was a show of the kind of reserve that led Nixon to pick Bruce as chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks...
...theatre. It was billed on the marquee as "The Laff Riot of Two Continents." Appallingly, the Loeb's Godot seems to have followed this Miami-Shlock school of drama approach. Everything is played for a laugh: the broadcast techniques of burlesque and vaudeville. Bob Hope-like gag timing, facial mugging, and borsht-belt delivery make for a jolly evening in the theatre. Unfortunately, this has transformed Godot from the blackest and best of our existential absurdist dramas into a Marx Brothers romp...