Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TULA. In this faultless first film, Spanish Director Miguel Picazo offers an austere and chilling portrait of a still beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) whose unyielding virtue quells her passion for her dead sister's husband...
...TULA. In this faultless first film, Spanish Director Miguel Picazo offers an austere and chilling portrait of a still-beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) whose unyielding virtue quells her passion for her dead sister's husband...
...life talk among bohemian young folk. Negroes, homosexuals, protestant white suburban mothers, single pregnant girls, middle-aged detractors of youthful pretension and youthful detractors of middle-aged complacency (and all these people wrapped up in six little characters none of which is a consistent or perceptive portrait of any type) you can make cracks not only about life, birth, death, sex, politics, and religion (which is all Dylan Thomas thought a writer could handle) but also about existentialism, television, the theater, psychoanalysis, social mores of two or three generations, race relations, and last but not least Batman...
...article, a masterpiece of editorial journalism both in content and depth of achievement, paints a colorful articulation, a true and honest portrait of the American Jew. It is positive, yet critical. As a matter of fact, you too have captured the Jewish quality that you so aptly summarized in the last paragraph: ". . . it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself...
...with Johnson, but he had ready access to the men around him, and this seems to have been enough-perhaps because there is so much about Johnson to explain that the flashes of insight in this book seem exceptional. At any rate, White has somehow compiled a chapter-length portrait of Johnson, that is almost beyond question the best thing in print on this most baffling of subjects, even though it is not firsthand...