Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soekarno gave up architecture. But though politics has been his occupation, he has not lost his interest in art. His Batavia house contains one of the finest collections of Indonesian paintings, especially moonlit mountain and jungle scenes. His favorite artist is the younger Abdullah, who painted a hauntingly lovely portrait of Soekarno's present wife (he married her because his first wife bore him no children; by the second he has a young son). When Soekarno was paid 800 guilders a month by the Japs, he used to give Artist Abdullah...
...PORTRAIT OF THE ANTI-SEMITE (27 pp.) -Jean-Paul Sarfre, translated by Mary Guggenheim-Partisan Review Series...
...slickest of U.S. slick magazines was born-along with baseball, Buffalo Bill, the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York's first tattoo parlor and Carry Nation-100 years ago. This week, to show how gracefully it had grown old, it unveiled a centenary self-portrait that managed to appear both candid and flattering. The 348-page Christmas annual that came from the presses of swank, sophisticated Town & Country was the heaviest (2 Ibs. 11½ oz.) issue in its history. It was also the richest, with around $250,000 worth...
Irving. But her Dolly Madison is every inch a movie queen: stunningly gowned, as icily beautiful as an East Room chandelier and twice as elegant as the Gilbert Stuart portrait...
...many of her readers to discover that men of such proven intellectual caliber as Thomas Edison, Sir William Crookes, and Alfred Russell Wallace were members of The Theosophical Society. ... If we are not to class them as dupes, then their association with Madame Blavatsky would argue that the Williams portrait of her is something less than true...