Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Before a man can fully embrace the future, he must be willing to endure a painful relinquishing of the past. In an honestly affecting portrait of an Irish émigré, Playwright Brian Friel depicts a young man caught between the pull of old memories and the beckoning of new hopes...
...talent found outside the Montand family, I was particularly impressed by Michel Piccoli, whose portrait of the unhappy clerk is a small masterpiece. Perspiring as freely as he fantasizes, nervously smoothing his sparse, slicked-down hair, and curling his lips into a tobacco-stained smile, Piccoli is simultaneously poignant, and repulsive. Charles Denner, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Claude Mann never fail to be compelling as a cynically belligerent smark aleck, Miss Signoret's languidly egotistical lover, and a charming but distant policeman, respectively...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Before a man can fully embrace the future, he must be willing to endure a somewhat painful relinquishing of the past. In an honestly affecting portrait of an Irish émigré, Playwright Brian Friel depicts a young man caught between the pull of memories and the beckoning of hopes...
...portrait of Shriver, his seventh TIME cover, is a good example of the qualities for which Shahn is noted: a sureness of line and tone, meticulous attention to detail, but not exactly a passion for photographic likeness. Shahn catches Shriver in a mood at once pensive and bemused, an intent man beset with a maze of problems. "His intention is good," Shahn says of him, "but he can't do it alone...
...Jethro Furber, the outrageously vivid villain of this orgiastically original first novel, William Gass presents a hilarious portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. In Brackett Omensetter, the "wide and happy" hero of the book, he offers an archetypal antithesis: "Like the clouds, he was natural and beautiful, like a piece of weather in the room. Life eased from him like a smooth broad crayon line. He knew the secret...