Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. Making masterful use of mountains of documents and diaries, the Russian-born biographer forges an unforgettable portrait of one of literature's greatest figures...
...press of deadlines led TIME to scramble its eggs and foul its anchors. Artist Boris Chaliapin painted the portrait in little more than nine hours, using as his primary guide a 1963 black-and-white photo of Bucher as a lieutenant commander-without gilt on his cap visor...
...swinging, tawdry, gutsy tart. I'll be damned if I'll prance around in the role." Instead, using dozens of shrewdly modulated gestures and inflections-a taunting yet soulful stare, a rippling laugh, an unexpectedly quiet and silken musical phrase-she builds a commanding portrait of a creature who is as vulnerable as she is passionate. Vocally and dramatically restrained as her performance is, everything in it has stunning impact because it is carefully fitted into a conception that gives Carmen a rare dignity and emotional depth. "In the first act," explains Resnik, "Carmen is playful...
...styles as their own, became the world's first "antique" collectors by buying Grecian art. Workmen throughout the far-flung empire harked back to Periclean models, though the 2nd century Jupiter found in Belgium is Roman in its compact proportions. The Romans' greatest innovation was the realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally identified, the Fogg's Mitten...
Bouvier's performance was only slightly less animated than the portrait of herself that hung over the mantel. And Adapter Capote, who is now writing an original play for his friend Lee, apparently needs a change in muse as well as Duse; the melodramatic script was scarcely the sort of thing he does best. Hanley's Flesh and Blood is the saga of a construction worker's family with all the woes of Eugene O'Neill's Hartford clan but none of the dramatic impact. Even such a formidable cast could not sustain the numbing...