Word: portrait
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Shots at the Shutters. News of the attempted conquest electrified all Argentina. The nation's Peronist labor unions called for all-out mobilization to conquer the Malvinas. A gang of toughs invaded the British consulate at Rosario and burned a portrait of Queen Victoria. In Buenos Aires, eight shots were fired at the shuttered windows of the British embassy, where Prince Philip had just arrived for a three-week goodwill visit. To calm the uproar, President Juan Carlos Ongania issued an announcement declaring that while the islands were the rightful property of Argentina, the government would stand...
With each new book he writes, any conscientious author tries to surpass his best previous performance. In the case of Edwin O'Connor, his best previous performance was The Last Hurrah (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an unforgettable portrait of an Irish politician doomed, like the torchlight procession, to extinction. O'Connor's next two novels, The Edge of Sadness and I Was Dancing, fell progressively short of Hurrah's high mark. All in the Family falls shorter still...
...Taking a second look at David Stone Martin's cover portrait of Senator Kennedy a question came to mind. Would Bobby be flattered by a picture which makes him look like a young Everett Dirksen...
...episode in the Soviet press. Moscow papers have produced objective, detailed and horrified reports of the way the Chinese are running a Marxist revolution. "The Red Guards beat up a worker because he happened to be in a room where they found a crack in the frame of a portrait of Mao," reported Pravda last week. "They beat people with sticks, rifle butts, chairs and electric wires. One man was tortured a whole night. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water over him, and kept torturing him until he died." Pravda also told how Red Guards from Peking seized...
...Cleveland's finest acquisitions are Goya's portrait of the Infante Don Luis de Boróon and Ribera's Death of Adonis (see color pages). Both works demonstrate Lee's flawless flair for picking a masterpiece that is also an unusual example of its kind. "The modern audience," says Lee, "has come to look to Goya for a brush that is wicked and bitter. But this portrait is of a man that Goya respected and admired. Clearly, he would never win a prize for handsomeness, but there is a sensitivity in his eyes and warmth...