Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marked for destruction is a tight-lipped swaggering cock of the prison walk named Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker). Even Chief Warder Barrows (Patrick Magee) caters to Bannion. Indeed, Losey's knowing development of the prison's internal and external linkup of influence peddling helps to strengthen his portrait of the criminal's hermetically sealed environment...
...modern taste, which feels uneasy in the presence of any kind of heroics, West's highly polished portraits are apt to seem his most appealing work. But as he wrote to his pupil Charles Willson Peale, "I am not friendly to the indiscriminate waste of genius in portrait painting." He wanted to "dignify man," to pass on lessons of "religion, love of country and morality." To the classic pursuit of the ideal, he added a romantic love of exalted sentiment. And this suited Georgian England perfectly: when men passed West's dramatic Death of Lord Nelson, they doffed...
...after George III, the new King, George IV, wanted to banish all his father's Wests to the lumber room of Windsor Castle. He backed down only when another eminent West student intervened. The man was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who in that same year started his own loving portrait of the benign old master...
...major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says the major) Rubens' portrait of Grotius ("Actually, they tell me now it may be a Van Dyck"), and a painting by Rembrandt's pupil Dou called Woman Drinking Soup out of a Bowl ("Personally. I think she is drinking wine...
Jack Lemmon inflects every line with his own comically contortionary body English, and Fred Astaire brings an engagingly woolly-headed P. G. Wodehouse idiocy to his portrait of a senior diplomat. Kim Novak has never been more opulently Kim Novak. Since she will never be an actress, the best time to enjoy...