Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleaker, more perceptive portrait of senility can ever have been written. Bruno wakes daily into pain. The small act of putting on his bathrobe must be thought out carefully in advance, as a gymnast plans a movement in a high-wire act. Bruno has become a monster and knows it. He lives for sips of champagne permitted him each evening and the exhilaration of using the telephone to call wrong numbers and know the thrill of human explanations and regrets. Murkily he perceives that death is a physical...
...appears to know just where he stands: "I am neither a satirist nor a cheerleader," he says with cool assurance. "I am strictly an observer." An honorable position honestly stated, it should quiet those critics who want an Auchincloss novel to be more than a well-crafted, highly polished portrait of the world he knows...
...Viet Nam, an Army photographer shoots sharp reconnaissance pictures despite the vibration of his small observation plane. From a shaky and make shift platform in Washington, a TV camera crew gives viewers a clear close-up portrait of Richard Nixon making his inaugural address. In North Miami, a policeman with a television camera takes shots showing distinct facial features of individuals creating a civil disturbance hundreds of feet below his quivering helicopter. In these and dozens of other applications, a remarkable new optical system is providing clear and steady images under circumstances that ordinarily cause blurred photo graphs or jiggling...
These are harsh words. But Mile, de Beauvoir's view of The Girls and its author is mild compared with the portrait of womankind sketched by Henry de Montherlant in these four novels published separately in Paris between 1936 and 1939 and now issued in America for the first time in a single volume. An accomplished playwright, novelist and gadfly, Montherlant at one time or another has irritated nearly everyone in France. Misogyny, though, is the specialité de la maison-like fetuccine Alfredo served with a silver spoon...
...third largest in the world, is complemented by Delacroix, Corot, Daumier, and Gericault. The drawings from Blake's illustrations of Dante, including a wonderful Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep, and the pre-Raphelite drawings make the English drawing a contingent rival of the French. The single Van Gogh portrait drawing is my favorite...