Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tula, feelingly adapted from a novel by Spain's passionate Writer-Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (who died in 1936), is an austere and chilling portrait of virginity Castilian-style...
Author Mecklin, a veteran TIME correspondent who served (on a leave of absence) from 1962 to 1964 as USIS chief in Saigon, watched the drama of Diem's last days from close range. The portrait of Diem that emerges from this bitter but balanced account is of a dedicated patriot flawed by hubris and hamstrung by scheming relatives...
...Beautifier (MODERN LIVING)-Portrait of a Lady Bountiful: philanthropist. Oxonian, art collector, known to New Yorkers as the city's unofficial green thumb, now deeply involved in the White House conference on American beauty. She is Mary Lasker, the kind of woman who, when she sends flowers, may send 40,000 daffodils...
...year-old boy dressed in a grey-brown tunic and a plumed velvet hat. In a chastely simple lobby of the National Gallery of Art, where the Mona Lisa hung last year on its visit to the U.S., Rembrandt's delicate 251 inch by 22 inch portrait of his son Titus was unveiled for a six-week-long stay before moving on to its permanent home in the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after the death of the child's mother, and the lines were lengthened...
Although Gelber is better at making points than creating people, his concern is with the autotelic personality whose life is as self-contained as a work of art, and who regards all other lives around him as tubes of paint to be squeezed onto his emotional self-portrait. In consequence, the sex battle becomes a war of egos. But Gelber's hero is concerned about being self-concerned, feels guilty about not feeling guilty, and this suffuses the play with moral pathos-even while it is being abrasively funny...