Word: portrait
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this week of Ten Minutes from Normal, a memoir of a decade spent as George W. Bush's spokeswoman and alter ego. For the White House, the blitz of publicity accompanying the book's publication couldn't come at a better time. Bush aides are counting on Hughes' hagiographic portrait of the President as a near flawless leader in turbulent times to serve as an antidote to the searing criticism in the recent book by Bush's former counterterrorism czar, Richard Clarke, or the one that former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill produced with journalist Ron Suskind...
...Laughing Cavalier, where all that really laughs is the Dutch military officer's moustache. "A smile may stimulate us in certain superficial ways, eliciting a ready smile in response, for example, but it also penetrates the deep recesses of our subconscious mind," Trumble writes. "What makes Hals's portrait great is that it convinces us that something similar is taking place, even though we know at the same time that the source of stimulation is nothing more than paint on canvas...
...lecture, entitled “Black Before ‘Brown’: Education, Health and Social Welfare Professionals in the South, 1930-1954,” discussed education and healthcare among southern black communities, using the specific case of a South Carolinian midwife to paint a portrait of the larger struggle of the period...
...manicured lawn or a bluestone patio or a Har-Tru tennis court. Of course, Lee isn't the first to point out that the suburbs hide uncharted depths of misery and discontentment--Updike, Rick Moody and John Cheever, among many others, have been here before. But Lee's portrait feels somehow more up-to-date than anything else out there, complete with postboom McMansions that take up all but a fringe of their .47-acre lots. Never mind that Jerry, a landscaping contractor, thinks in better prose than most English professors write--come on, give Lee some room to play...
...Uffizi gallery, the Palazzo Strozzi exhibition features his outstanding allegories Calumny and Pallas and the Centaur, alongside Filippino masterpieces like the Allegory of Love. This soul mate of Allegory of Spring is from a private collection in London, and hasn't been shown publicly since 1949. The portraits section features Botticelli's famous Portrait of Man with Medal of Cosimo the Elder and his Profile of a Young Woman, a virtually unknown work from a private collection in New York. It also boasts Filippino's naturalistic Portrait of a Musician, an intense and pensive study of an instrumentalist surrounded...