Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already Ensconced. The book-originally titled Death of Lancer in reference to Jack Kennedy's Secret Service code name-paints, in fact, an almost unrelieved portrait of Johnson as an unfeeling and boorish man. Manchester's hostility to Johnson comes across with particular force in his description of the hours immediately after the assassination. In his original version, at least, Manchester told how the Kennedy contingent arrived at Dallas' Love Field with the President's body and was "dismayed" to find that Johnson's party had moved in to Air Force One. Johnson himself...
...family approached two authors -Theodore H. White (The Making of a President) and Walter Lord (Day of Infamy). Both declined, mostly because the Kennedys were asking for final-review rights of the book. Someone recalled that Jack Kennedy had spoken favorably of Manchester, whose 1962 Portrait of a President was a glowing-one reviewer called it "adoring"-tribute to J.F.K. Manchester, 44, an exMarine, agreed to the conditions laid down by the Kennedys...
...LONG CHILDHOOD OF TIMMY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An intimate portrait of a mentally retarded child, Timmy Loughlin, 9, whose mind has not yet progressed beyond...
...tour is a celebration of Martha Graham's 50th anniversary as a dancer, a career that is thoroughly chronicled in a new book, Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artist* by Leroy Leatherman, her manager for the past 13 years. Though it tends to be overly idolatrous, the biography is an engrossing study of the woman and the creative forces that shaped her art. Beginning with the days when Graham performed tangos and apache dances in the Greenwich Village Follies, Leatherman traces her development through her early-American period (she is a descendant of Miles Standish...
...every portrait looks...