Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME cover story, and she admitted having "some trepidations" but philosophically quoted Bobby Burns: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Artist Boris Artzybasheff saw Lady Bird partly through her name and designed as a fitting background to her portrait a strong and stylish Artzybird...
Most of all, Davis shows tact and imagination as an adviser of actors. He spurs the phlegmatic Finch to a thoughtful portrait of the middle-aged man attempting simultaneously to play papa and pitch woo. And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety...
Artist Boris Chaliapin began sketching his portrait of Admiral Sharp from photographs. For a background, we originally considered CINCPAC'S emblem (see cut), symbolizing as it does the command's semiglobal reach, but in the end decided instead on the ships and planes that you now see moving across the cover's horizon. Nation Writers Ron Kriss and Ed Magnuson began planning the week's lead article and the cover story with Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum. The entire Washington bureau went into action; Military Correspondent John Mulliken interrupted his vacation to resume covering the Pentagon, while...
...weather-beaten monument in Stanleyville's Lumumba Square is wreathed in a spray of faded plastic flowers and surrounded by white bathroom tiles. It consists of a crude glass-encased portrait showing a goateed man, whose left hand rests on a multicolored globe. A rusty sign, rising from a scraggly bed of petunias, proclaims: "Here is the monument of the Liberator of the Congo, Premier Patrice Emery Lumumba, Hero of Independence and of Unity, assassinated 18 January 1961 in Katanga...
...monument last week strode the latest Liberator of the Congo, Premier Moise Tshombe, onetime leader of secessionist Katanga and the man whom most Congolese hold responsible for Lumumba's murder. Standing poker-faced in a tepid drizzle, Tshombe solemnly deposited a wreath at the foot of the portrait, bowed his head in silence. Later he delivered a speech that drew wild applause from at least 5,000 of Lumumba's former followers. "You have suffered too much from strings pulled abroad. The Congolese will not be valets of colonialists and imperialists...