Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portrait of Julie...
...possible to paint the portrait of an entire generation?" Artist Robert Vickrey provides his own answer in his study of the four young people on the cover. None is a real person, but when one editor saw the finished picture, he remarked that the handsome youth in the foreground suggested a portrait of the artist as a young man. "Something of that might have slipped in," Vickrey allowed. As for our word portrait, it includes more faces, more facets, and greater complexities. It includes, we hope, the varied spirit of a generation that is anything but faceless. And we also...
...little kids, being chased by two other hoods, and finally escaping to lean wearily, ecstatically, on one another saying, "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" National Student Film Award Winner Eric Camiel, 23, evokes the sympathy most Now People feel for the underdog in his Riff '65, a deadpan portrait of a 15-year-old Manhattan dweller with artistic talent who loses his fingers under a subway train. "I can take all they can dish out," insists Riff...
...Folk Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, 24, passionately pleading the cause of her fellow Indians when she is not recording top-selling LPs. It is Artist Jamie Wyeth, 20, improving on his father's style while putting in some 200 hours on a portrait of John F. Kennedy; Violinist James Oliver Buswell, 20, carrying a full Harvard freshman load and a 44-city concert tour simultaneously; Actress Julie Christie, 25, shedding miniskirt for bonnet and shawl while filming Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and denouncing "kooky clothing" in the women's magazines. It is Sanford Greenberg...
From William Rothenstein, who did his portrait, Nicolson learned that Oscar Wilde "had a red face, grey lips and very bad teeth. He was so ashamed of his teeth that he used to put his hand over them when he spoke, giving an odd, furtive expression to his face...