Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen pianists take the stage at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival to give a fine, festive survey of their art. The course starts with Contrary Motion, played by Willie "The Lion" Smith, professor emeritus of the bouncing left-hand "stride" piano, which Duke Ellington gracefully imitates in his impressionistic Second Portrait of the Lion. Starting out ever so simply in Somehow, Earl "Fatha" Hines soon fills all the spaces with increasingly intricate trills and runs. Most emotionally eloquent of the lot, Mary Lou Williams plays 45° Angle and Joycie with declarative force and powerful swing...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. As an ornithologist studying the noble birds at Louis XIV's Court of Versailles, Author Mitford is more interested in song and plumage than ecology, but her illustrated portrait of that resplendent monarch is a tidy job of dissection...
...very closely acquainted with Walter Cronkite, and TIME'S cover portrait infuriated me. Walter Cronkite does not have mud-brown eyes. He has the most beautiful, clear, bright blue eyes I have ever seen. Also the bluest blue eyes...
...skyscraper near the Berlin Wall. "Before me I saw a lunar landscape," he recalls. "I wanted to record this part of a country sentenced to death." As a commission for the German government for $50,000 (which he gave to children's charity), he painted his 1966 portrait of Konrad Adenauer as a figure illusory and shrinking in form, as if wasting away. "He's very cunning, stately, vital," says Kokoschka of the 90-year-old former German chief of state, adding in admiration, "For three weeks he posed, never wanting to sit. 'You are standing...
...recording in Confessions every real and fancied failure, every agonizing triumph, every abrasive sand grain of guilt. He himself was in no doubt about the splendor and uniqueness of his autobiography. "It is without precedent," he boasted, "and will find no imitator -the only existing portrait of a man drawn from life and in all truthfulness, and probably the only one there ever will...