Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized to help support the H.L.U. "Progressive," the film series will bring to the University during the spring term "Open City," Italian picture voted one of the ten best in 1946, and "The Great Train Robbery," as well as Soviet-filmed "Chapeyev," and "The Spanish Earth," portrait of civil war's effect on Spain...
Comrade Pompadour. At last week's memorial ceremonies, a huge, floodlit portrait of Lenin looked down from the façade of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
Many of his subjects have to be snapped in a hurry. General Charles de Gaulle could spare only 30 seconds for his portrait. Yet the single superb picture caught Le grand Charlie's imperious, cold character perfectly. John L. Lewis dashed out of his chair after each exposure, dashed out of the room the fourth time. George Bernard Shaw gave Karsh five minutes when he sat down. But when he found out that Karsh was an Armenian by birth, he gave him a Shavian shaving: "I have many friends among the Armenians, but to keep them strong and healthy...
...essays feature historical figures, but, in the modern manner, the chosen figure serves equally as a peg on which Author Brogan hangs dissertations on social conditions and any lively bits of stuff that catch his eye. The essay on Marshal Bazaine, for example, is not merely a portrait of the man who lost the Franco-Prussian War, it is also a discussion of the grand tradition of French marshals, from Turenne to Rochambeau...
...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society will congregate on or about 3 February for a formal portrait. Wear your shoes...