Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy portrait-a masterpiece...
Pietro Annigoni's portrait of John F. Kennedy projected a magnificent image of an individual burdened with the world's most critical responsibilities. But it can hardly be termed a comely honorarium for a personality awarded the title of Man of the Year...
...especially impressed with Annigoni's masterful portrait...
...unbuttoned-to-the-waist body as her soul. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal) is an alcoholic, defrocked minister who herds lady-tourists off the guidebook route, but is himself spooked by bottomless guilt. Hannah Jelkes (Margaret Leighton) is a Nantucket spinster of nearly 40 who does portrait sketches to eke out a precariously transient existence, but all of her emotional assets are banked with her 97-year-old grandfather, Nonno. Billed as "the world's oldest living and practicing poet," Nonno (Alan Webb) gives poetry readings and wears the stiff white coffin of great age with gallantry...
...Marquess of Anglesey (428 pp; Morrow; $7.50). A debonair portrait of one of the great 19th century soldier-aristocrats by his admiring great-great-grandson, the present marquess. Henry William Paget, Lord Anglesey, spent 20 years in the House of Commons without making a single speech. He had much more to say to the ladies, among them the beautiful Duchess of Rutland, a widow twelve years his senior. Annoyed one night that he was separated from the duchess, Paget set fire to some gunpowder in the house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk...