Word: portrait
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...disciple. Novelist and Editor Charles Angoff was sole editorial assistant to H. L. Mencken from 1925 to 1933. In recent years Russian-born, Harvard-educated Angoff has emerged as Mencken's chief literary assassin. Having fanged his ex-idol non-fictionally in H. L. Mencken: A Portrait from Memory, Angoff releases some fictional venom in The Bitter Spring. Mencken is portrayed as a loud-mouthed vulgarian and an intellectual fraud with but a single saving grace, his love of music...
...naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including a portrait of Canfield that Whistler called His Reverence...
...Country. This study of Sigmund Freud and his famous patient Elizabeth von Ritter, although somewhat broken in impact, provides an often vibrant blend of theater and truth. The play offers a vital portrait of Freud, ably acted by Steven Hill, and a crucial delineation of Elizabeth, intelligently played by Kim Stanley...
...lyrical evocation of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' imaginary town; Call Me by My Rightful Name, a fresh look at interracial misfits by new Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's quietly angry, queerly comic comment on modern man; The Connection, a notoriously graphic portrait of some beatniks with golden arms; The Zoo Story, another Albee study, teamed with Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, far-out but fascinating early play by Bertolt Brecht; and the already classic Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein musical, The Threepenny Opera...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. An engrossing portrait of a legendary eccentric of British East Africa, C.J.P. Ionides, whose passion is the care and capture of snakes...