Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bernard Safran must have painted his cover portrait [of Nixon] from a reflection in Nixon's mother...
...President's path ten minutes too early, and Kaplow stood there ad-libbing about everything from Nixon's preconvention campaign to the January inaugural. When the Nixons finally appeared, both networks closed in on a TV sight not soon to be forgotten-Pat Nixon, her face a portrait of distress almost under control, struggling hopelessly to do the smiling job her husband was accomplishing with ease, showing a trace of terror when the unsolemn crowd interrupted Nixon to shout: "We want...
...Street Where You Live). They spill over the battlements of Camelot. His present score is as melodious as any he has done, from brightly lighted marches (Then You May Take Me to the Fair) to pastels of love (If Ever I Would Leave You) and the gules-and-argent portrait of Camelot itself...
Puritans by Exertion. Taking office, they poured out their avenging anti-Western zeal by ripping down Queen Elizabeth's portrait, slashing British bureaucrats' salaries, banning juke boxes, comic books and other manifestations of what they called the West's "yellow culture." Tieless, coatless puritans presiding over the sybaritic center of the old South Seas, they rapidly got a name as Southeast Asia's most honest administrators. Certainly their streets were the cleanest. But Prime Minister Lee, a wealthy, Cambridge-schooled Chinese, soon grasped that Singapore by itself is an island emporium ill suited to revolutionary socialism...
...Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. The twilight years of a dandy, Sir Max Beerbohm, sketched with grace, fondness and urbanity. Decorated with many a scathingly eloquent caricature by "the incomparable...