Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's portrait of a decidedly modern romance...
ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry...
...goose eggs in bowler hats. To point up last week's summit meeting in Cierna, the Economist pictured Russia's Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia's Dubček exchanging chitchat while clapping perfunctorily at a public function. This week's cover on birth control is a portrait of Pope Paul sitting in lonely majesty against a black background. The caption: "What world...
...masses because it was part of the machine age. It could be mass-produced, it married impractical art to socially useful architecture, and it represented a departure from the decadent realism of the Czarist past. With mixed feeling, Berlin's Dadaist Raoul Hausmann contrived a photomontage "portrait" of Tatlin in which his brain is a mass of machinery topped by a dentist's drill...
Despite party differences, and the intriguing fact that most of this year's delegates (82% of the Republicans, for example) will be attending their first convention, past statistics paint the portrait of a kind of composite delegate. He is a white, middle-class male of about 50. He is more than likely a college graduate. He lives well: the median income for Democratic delegates in 1964 was over $18,000 a year and for Republicans over $20,000. About 10% of the Democrats and 14% of the Republicans earned more than...