Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADALEN '31. Director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan) paints a poignant portrait of people caught in the flux of history and conveys the ineffable quality of a single decisive moment in a man's life...
...residents of Gargaliani, Spiro Agnew is one of their own. His portrait hangs in a place of honor in the town hall, larger than that of Greece's Prime Minister or of the exiled King Constantine. Acting Mayor Nicholas Horaites produces with a flourish copies of congratulatory notes sent by the town council to Agnew-each cable misspelling his name in a different...
Downhill Racer, a sober and straight-forward story about an aggressive young skier on the international circuit, attempts to carom past the usual clichés by taking a fictionalized documentary approach. If on occasion it takes a spill or two, Downhill still comes through as a perceptive, unsentimental portrait of a young athlete on the make...
ADALEN '31. Director Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan) paints a poignant portrait of people caught in the flux of history and conveys the ineffable quality of a single decisive moment in a man's life...
...Taylor said that when he and his friends arrived at the house-where he had not been for many years-they went up the stairs to see the portrait. When he turned the corner he saw the same painting of the same ancestor in the same place-but it was very small. Instead of huge it was moderate say two feet by three feet instead of five feet by seven feet. All those years the painting had been growing and growing in his memory. He knew that nothing in the house had really changed. The confusion arose in his proud...