Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Self-Portrait. In Paris, an American learned that two Frenchmen had tried to steal his getaway car while he held up a restaurant, exclaimed indignantly: "The crooks...
...Portrait of Maria (MGM International) is a Mexican-made film with an English sound track dubbed in. It thus reverses the traditional practice of dubbing Spanish into Hollywood films so that Spanish-speaking movie audiences will get the impression that Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, et al. are speaking idiomatic Spanish. U.S. cinemaddicts will not be surprised to hear Maria's heroine (Delores Del Rio) speaking English, but they will note that the sound track doesn't quite match the Del Rio lips-or even the Del Rio voice...
...desk in an alcove of his book-lined study sat the Prime Minister. There was a large bouquet of red roses in front of him. Two feet away, where Mr. King could see it with the slightest turn of his head, hung a portrait of the Prime Minister's mother in a pose resembling Whistler's mother. The picture was illuminated from below by a table lamp...
When 59-year-old Artist Paul Burlin won first prize in Pepsi-Cola's "Portrait of America" contest (TIME, Nov. 19), he was happy to get the $2,500, said it "comes in handy." By last week he was less happy about it. Pepsi-Cola apparently did not agree with the artists' jury which had given top honors to Burlin's Soda Jerker. Burlin's heavily satirical picture, which was as cluttered as a cosmetics counter and as messy-looking as a spilled sundae, had been omitted from Pepsi-Cola's New Year calendar, which...
...Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James Mason) loves music but hates women; her first suitor, an American saxophone player, proposes marriage but lets her get away; a pudgy, pompous portrait painter merely proposes that she run off with him to a tumbledown villa in Italy...