Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Ingrid Bergman, is a brilliant one-woman tour de force written by Jean Cocteau and originally released in 1960. The woman is alone, talking to her lover on the phone. He is about to marry someone else and she is desolate. Intimate, anguished, yearning, tender, this is a portrait of a woman desperately trying to breathe life into a dead love. As one critic put it, "Had the piece been played in the barren Sahara, the dunes would have moved closer to listen...
...Moscow, Envoy Harriman operated smoothly out of a tiny improvised office facing the courtyard on the ninth floor of the U.S. embassy. The only extra furnishings were a portrait of George Washington and two extra chairs, one of which was shoved into the open doorway by his secretary. Since the office is usually a waiting room, many a surprised visitor tried to vault the chair. During the mornings...
Died. Louis Fabian Bachrach, 82, master photographer for 40 years (1915-55) as head of Bachrach, Inc., the nation's premier portrait firm (founded in 1868 by Bachrach's father, run today by his two sons, Bradford and Louis Fabian Jr.), a student of human nature who found that the great and rich alike wanted the camera to "fill in their inadequacies," did so with such success that he and his sons have photographed every President since Wilson; of a stroke; in Boston...
...Portrait of Myself, Bourke-White...
...G.B.S., A PORTRAIT by Janet Dunbar. 303 pages. Harper...