Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom to retrieve six Picasso drawings, a Van Gogh sketch and a portrait of his father. But surveying his gutted first floor after the blaze had been extinguished half an hour later. Rockefeller found only the charred remains of a distinguished art collection, estimated the loss at $350,000. All told. 70 pictures and sculptures were damaged or destroyed, including a number of Rocky...
...something much finer, style. Even if one understood only a few lines of the French, the movement on stage would have told the whole story and would have been, for its own sake, a delight to watch. Perhaps Morris's most brilliant touch was turning the glaring portrait of Mr. Boylston, which graces the front of the auditorium, into a representation of Tervagon, the great and fearsome god of the pagans...
...newspaper ad for Macy's 1961 Spring Fabric Fashion Show. "Whether or not," continued the pitch, "you're an aficionado who adores China's rhythmical stroll along fashion's illustrious runways, you must come see her . . ." What made the invitation ir resistible was the accompanying portrait of "the great China," a model of ex quisitely earthy elegance - who makes her own clothes. Born in Shanghai of a Portuguese father and a Siamese mother, China Machado, now 25, worked her way around the world as a Pan Am stewardess and cinemactress, became the top mannequin for Givenchy...
...camera finds the hero (Belmondo) flobbing around Marseille, sucking a cigarette, nothing to do: a portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk. Casually, he steals a car, roars north. Sixty. Seventy. Eighty. Police give chase. Gun in glove compartment. Why not? He kills a policeman, panics, runs. Paris. Meets bedmate, an American girl (Seberg), on the street, makes date, strolls off. Police spot him, give chase. Loses them in subway, goes to a men's room. Man washing hands. Punk slugs him, empties his pockets. Girl goes home, finds him in her bed. "Why did you come...
...inadequacies and ineptitudes... he wears thick glasses, has a large nose, and is flagrantly Jewish.... Most of the officers on Prospect Street would agree that this precisely describes the sort of man who at all costs must be kept out. It is also a fairly accurate portrait of Einstein...