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...liberate people. I think we're so afraid--guys like me and women too, people in public life--we're all afraid that if we admit error or admit fear, we'll be viewed as weak or wanting. That's why when President Bush and I did the portrait unveiling a couple of days ago, I said one of my favorite portraits in the White House was Philip Laszlo's portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in the Cabinet Room. You can see the strength, but you can see the fear. The only thing I can compare Laszlo's portrait of Theodore...
NOTEBOOK: New abuse charges at Abu Ghraib; fear after a beheading in Saudi Arabia; presidential portrait lore...
...movement of the place you’re in, the city that, like every city, is always changing. And just as when you’re moving on the subway, looking out the window of the car on your way to work, the view is less of a postcard portrait than an overwhelming blur. Of course Dr. Johnson was right: “It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.” The old, cold illusion of London...
...like piece of brilliance almost fifteen years ago. The funniest piece belongs to Joe Matt, who's autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general poor living with horrifying candor. The breakout "unknown" artist is David Heatley, who provides poignant and funny vignettes of his father in "Portrait of My Dad." Other contributor are a who's who of indy comix: Lynda Barry, the Hernandez Brothers, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, Dan Clowes, Art Spiegelman...
...Super Size Me had to offer was a portrait of Spurlock growing increasingly gray, whiny and, finally, scared about what he's doing to himself, it would be no more than an attention-getting device by a slightly smarmy man who rather lacks Michael Moore's bullying star quality. Face it, even in a nation where a quarter of the population eats at least once a week in a fast-food joint, mass emulation of his diet is unlikely...