Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk - years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character...
...land. His office has a few pieces of period furniture, a broad expanse of bookshelves filled with tomes on naval history. Scattered about are gaily colored, crude models of the ships which one of his U-boats sank on a successful cruise. On the wall behind him is a portrait of his revered predecessor, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who ardently advocated unrestricted U-boat warfare 26 years...
...lobby a young girl stood silently looking at the blown-up portrait of Harry James-a slender, mustachioed, modest young musician...
...three-dimensional psychological portrait of Albert Lory not only has many indistinct patches, it also seems to belong in a French novel rather than on the screen. This miscarriage of form is not helped by hackneyed studio settings and self-conscious photography - audiences may feel that Hamlet and Hamlet's descendants were not meant for Hollywood...
When Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 28) has painted portraits in the past, the results have rarely been recognizable as human beings. But last week his first portrait show at Manhattan's Knoedler galleries proved that Dali, when confronted by society ladies, can make faces look as vapidly human as any other slick artist can. Garnished with the carefully strange surrealist fantasy which Salvador Dali affects, some of his canvases could pass for society magazine covers...