Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rene Clement's Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) is the highly successful marriage of at least two movies. By turns a mystery thriller and a beautiful portrait of the Mediterranean, it emerges as a poignant statement of human corruption in a modern Eden...
...report on Professor Barth [April 20] is a masterpiece, and for those of us who know and love Earth, he has assuredly succeeded, in spite of the complexity of Earth's many images, in drawing clearly a portrait of Earth as a Christian man whose religious personality leaves one of the finest memories of utter charm and humanity...
...tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth columnists who try to wipe out the ape population, is passed when Scruffy is induced to marry cross-eyed Amelia, after a long-distance betrothal complete with a touched-up portrait, a la Anne of Cleves. It was funnier the first time it happened...
...peace of mind while I'm doing it.'' The book bears a sweet, refreshing smell of hay. and - considering the risk involved - surprisingly little corn. The hero, at least, has a golden heart, not a golden arm. The book is a faithful portrait of a man in awe of heaven who finally goes there, leaving an estate worth...
...Atheneum exhibition should do away with one outworn illusion: that abstract artists are abstract because they cannot paint images. Esteban Vicente's portrait of his little daughter and the early sculptured heads by Sculptors Reuben Nakian and Louise Nevelson prove that these artists could have successfully stuck to representation had they chosen to. Other early works are not so reassuring. Mark Rothko's floating rectangles, controversial though they are, at least have an air of mystery, and many admirers have fallen under their spell. Had Rothko stuck to realism, as in his Two Women in a Window...