Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SALESMAN. The Maysles brothers, with camera and sound equipment in hand, spent six weeks tracking a group of New England Bible salesmen on their weary rounds. The result is a searing, melancholy and not wholly unsympathetic portrait of what the Maysles call "one part of the American dream...
...long corridors of Washington's ' old Patent Office Building are ornate reminders of 19th century architecture. But now that the Patent Office has moved, the building reaches even farther into the past. It is the new National Portrait Gallery, and its art affords the visitor an intimate introduction to the giants of American history...
Last week that historical record was brought up to date with the opening of a show devoted to a collection of 86 original TIME covers, all of them portraits of U.S. newsmakers. They are not only portraits of outstanding Americans, said Charles Nagel, director of the gallery, but they are also "the work of notable artists of our time." Washington officials, lawmakers and diplomats turned out to admire the portraits and toast the artists-many of whom were present along with their subjects. Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk was on hand to renew his friendship with Artist Boris Chaliapin. His portrait...
...Artist Peter Hurd, the evening was particularly significant. Not only was he represented in TIME'S show with a portrait of Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. as president of TWA, but down the hall from the TIME exhibit another of his paintings had just been hung-a portrait of Lyndon Johnson, the one L.B.J. banished after labeling it the ugliest portrait he had ever seen...
...Cover: Oil painting from life by Gerard de Rose. Background items include the spires of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; a portrait of Nabokov's mother at 34, painted by Leon Bakst in 1910; tiles from a Russian version of Scrabble; a brown wood nymph butterfly, and on the novelist's shoulder, a small blue Lycaena argiolus...