Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Hill is completely under the thumb of General MacDermott, one of the most sinister characters ever to wear a U.S. uniform. In one scene, MacDermott is seen sitting in a booty-bulging castle, listening to stock exchange quotations, while his wife has her portrait painted. Upon hearing that timber prices are rising in England, the alert army wife gives the general a shrewd tip: "Have the Germans chop down their forests around the city and ship the wood to be sold in England. What have you been appointed a general for if you can't make...
Died. Neysa McMein Baragwanath, sixtyish, magazine-cover illustrator (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's) and portrait artist whose Manhattan studio was once a famed meeting place for artists and writers (Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, the late Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott); following an operation; in Manhattan...
...program includes "Flickers," a parody of the silent film era; "A House Divided," a Lincoln portrait; and "Fables for Our Time," a dance interpretation of James Thurber's stories...
...tomorrow night for the group's only Boston performance this season. The performance, which is sponsored by the Radcliffe dance department, will include "Fables For Our Time," based on James Thurber's stories, "Flickers," take-off on the silent films, and "A House Divided," a Lincoln portrait...
...France into thin flakes and shavings of color, and though he obeyed the laws of perspective in applying his painted patchwork to canvas, he used different perspectives for each patch. As a result, his pictures looked rather like panoramas painted into the pleats of an accordion. Even his self-portrait appeared to have been painted on creased and crumpled paper: the self-possessed face was only half there...