Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, he extolled the virtues of family life at the same time that he neglected his own. And it is this contradiction that Troyat documents with special warmth-particularly the love-hate relationship between Tolstoy and his wife Sonya. Troyat's portrait of Sonya is considerably more sympathetic than that drawn by most other biographers. During 48 years of marriage, which started with a brutal wedding-night struggle that left the inexperienced bride sexually unresponsive for the rest of her life, she bore his children, efficiently managed Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate, transcribed his chicken scratches into legible manuscripts...
...occasion. Tracy and Hepburn were appearing before the cameras together for the last time, and they knew it; ailing for years, Tracy died of heart failure less than three weeks after the picture was completed. His final performance was just exactly what it should be: a sincere, concentrated, honest portrait of a sincere, concentrated, honest man who might as well have been Spencer Tracy...
Daley's column, according to the letter, "glosses over the moral implications of individual protest and opens the way for a romantic portrait of the Olympics as a shrine to brotherly competition and good sportsmanship...
...Boris Chaliapin has done well with his portrait of Rudi Gernreich, but what are the two things behind him? Refugees from Star Trek maybe? HARRY PRESTON Detroit...
...portrait, approximately three feet square, was done by one of Reed's classmates, Robert H. Hallowell. It is now located outiside the library in Adams C-Entry...