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...minutes to get a good picture— especially if you look like Cary Grant.” The same can be said of Anthony Perkins, perched charmingly above his dog, or of Dennis Hopper, who looks out of the picture, taken on location in Peru, with a penetrating gaze. It is when the show strays from these easy shots that it falters. Jeffry had taken thousands of photographs of Edward Albee, many of which the Theatre Collection purchased along with other of Jeffry’s photographs in 1981—but only one from the more recent acquisition...
Keïta’s rectangular portraits offer intimate, insightful glances into their subjects. A 1952-55 photograph, “Untitled,” taken of a middle-aged man wearing dark glasses and a bow-tie depicts an affecting sense of gravity. The dignified, serious gaze of the sitter shows a quiet, restrained pride. Another Keïta portrait, also untitled and taken in 1959, shows a similarly grave young girl, her arms swung casually over a straight-backed chair. The girl’s elaborate white dress and beads provide a stark contrast to her frank...
...much in honor as in derision). Large, fleshy and handsome, with unslakable ambition and infectious dynamism, he gained instant legend; between Einstein and Ray Charles, Welles was the fellow to whom the word "genius" was most easily applied. He had Mesmer?s charm; his voice could hypnotize, his gaze entrance. "When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like meeting God without dying" (Dorothy Parker). He landed in the American consciousness like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, his prodigious youth the stuff of theatrical legend: playing at Dublin?s Gate...
...cormorants jeered. The muskies laughed. The judge, however, was very polite. He averted his gaze, and talked about getting a big fish tomorrow...
...would think it would be an enjoyable trip. Reclining seats, AC cranked up against the tropical climate and southeast Mexico's lush countryside to gaze at. These folks are going home. Trouble is, they don't want to. When the bus crosses the border and pulls up on the narrow, rain-soaked street in front of the immigration office in El Carmen Frontera, Guatemala, its passengers are in a foul mood. Home is El Salvador or Honduras or Nicaragua or Guatemala itself--all disaster plagued, crime-ridden, poorer by the minute and, as far as those...