Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maurice's son, Bernard Boutet de Monvel, is also a gifted artist, particularly as a portrait painter. The fineness of his line and the quality of his color is reminiscent of his father's. Bernard now . . . has painted a magnificent canvas of Ingrid Bergman (see cut) as she appears in the motion picture Joan...
...debates. One of the most tireless debaters is a Dominican, Father Felix Morlion, who challenged Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti to a debate over Cardinal Mindszenty's trial. Togliatti sent a substitute, Communist Senator Ottavio Pastore. When Pastore was through, Father Morlion quietly mounted the rostrum beneath a huge portrait of Togliatti and smilingly proceeded to answer the Senator's ranting. "To conquer misery," Father Morlion concluded, "it is not necessary to suppress religion...
...fight duels any more in Spain. What I wanted was a good solid pretext to give Serrano the lesson he deserves-a beating-up in the old-fashioned way, a good spanking on the fanny, as you do with naughty children. Only-" here he glanced at a portrait of Franco on the wall "-they...
...Cobb, impressing Broadway with his depressing portrait of Willy, the hero of Death of a Salesman, was promoted to star billing, with his name on the marquee. Star Cobb, just back from five years of playing supporting roles in Hollywood, called it "the most rewarding experience of my professional life...
...Seeker scarcely seems more than a rough sketch for a novel. It wavers between a sympathetic view of Aaron's religious questionings and a breezy freethinker's ridicule of the pretensions of the faithful. It likewise wavers between its realistic portrait of prairie life and its satirical account of the mission to the Indians-with the Indians educated, civilized and urbane, and the whites cantankerous and benighted...