Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a new series about the film industry. Director John Huston narrates the first episode, a portrait of the late Humphrey Bogart...
...troop of resolute Britons, rolling up sleeves against the dirty job ahead. This must have pleased Churchill mightily; in other times, he had been one of Low's particular targets. "You can't bridle the wild ass of the desert," said Churchill after one painful portrait, "still less prohibit its natural heehaw...
...clothes are like the portrait of Dorian Gray," she says somewhat inexactly. "They never get dirty or old." They have no chance. She has over $2,000 worth of Jax slacks. Friends have given her all sorts of furs. Her 80 pairs of shoes are arranged in closets according to the color spectrum. "My friends say I have a 'perfect' complex," she says. "You should see my drawers. My maid goes crazy. It's weird that I'm so organized, yet I can be such a flake I'll forget an appointment...
...make it boggle, from Barnett Newman's eccentric, hard-edge stripes in his Black Fire to Robert Rauschenberg's Trophy II, a pop art combine in four pieces equipped with a real glass of water on a shelf with a spoon kerplunk in it. The only true portraits, surprisingly, are Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning's Marilyn Monroe and Pop Artist James Rosenquist's Portrait of the Scull Family. Little-known names among the 102 were Australia's Brett Whiteley and a young Indian named Mohan Samant...
Inevitably, much of it turns out to be chaff; Frost, for instance, was a tireless and occasionally tiresome punster. But from the mass of letters stretching back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain of Frost's more sentimental adulators. People thought of him, Untermeyer explains, "as benevolent, sweet and serene. Instead he was proud, trou bled and jealous. Robert did not converse, he spoke...