Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubled love affairs, heavy drinking, instability, and finally nervous collapse. He spent the last 30 years of his life in semiseclusion in a large country house on the outskirts of Oslo, painting and refusing to sell his paintings. A few years before his nervous collapse, he painted Self-Portrait with Cigarette, which has been called "a vision of daemonic grandeur, Munch as he thought of himself as seen by the world...
...ultimately wound up in Stars and Stripes and Air Force Times. In Montana, Widen saw the picture, read of the search that Alfons had begun three years ago and guessed that he was the man. His legacy: Toni Hafner's German Gold Cross, his wings, and a portrait of the ace painted by Alfons...
Exaggerated Portrait. The plight of the migrant workers is bad; but because of its overstatement, Harvest drew howls, especially from Florida's U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland, whose state was the one visited by Murrow. Harvest of Shame, said Holland, contained at least seven distortions and errors of fact. Holland cited, among others, the example of the 29-year-old Negro woman who told Murrow that she was the mother of 14 and had earned $1 for a full day's work in the fields. The facts were, said Holland, that seven of her children were dead...
Breathless. A formless but practically flawless cubistic portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk...
...most part, Stone, who "studied quarries at close range" and learned how to carve marble for this novel, relies on his "research material, comprising some 5.000 typewritten pages." Out of this emerges the standard portrait of the boy who lost his mother at six and found his vocation before his teens. There is the taunt ("Big man, big wind") by the small Michelangelo to a large fellow artist that cost the hero a smashed nose and lifelong disfigurement. There is the early patronage and early death of Lorenzo de' Medici ("77 Magnifico"). There are the later duels of wills...