Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Nicol Williamson plays, with explosive passion, John Osborne's portrait of a London solicitor who, resentful of being remade in the image of the computer, symbolizes buffeted humanity in the 20th century...
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...
...Spanish Civil War. For five months in 1936-37, he labored over one canvas, the Still Life with Old Shoe, which would, he hoped, be simple enough for the humblest Spanish peasant to appreciate. His anguish is mirrored in the lines that crisscross the face of his 1938 Self-Portrait. "I'd like," he wrote, "to try my hand at sculpture, pottery, engraving and, by means of painting of another kind, to get in closer contact with the masses, whom I have always kept in mind...
...more remarkable bits of staging was a film clip of Sherman being interviewed on two screens with a portrait hanging in the middle. The interchange of shots is bristling and in perfect rapport with the equally stirring language thrusts. Sherman is played by Tim Mayer who creates a wierdly fascinating character--the tortured and melodiously wicked psyche of a Historical Man, in the sense of a man who has tasted the feel of strangling men, and cannot forget...
...BLACK AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Portrait in Black," fourth in a seven-part series, sums up the opinions of 1,500 blacks and whites questioned at length by CBS News about problems confronting black America...