Word: portraited
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When I was five years old I drew a pastel portrait in vivid purple and blue inspired by the Queen of Hearts. My work of art, which I named “Heart Lady,” now seems to me to be some sort of drag queen version of the redoubtable visage on the playing cards themselves. Her hat is just a little too far from her head and one arm kind of swims out in front, unattached to the rest of her body. My art teacher liked the drawing, though. She even put it on the cover...
...mother never saw him get it. An asthma attack killed her when Damon was 15. Her portrait covers his left biceps. Two years ago, tragedy struck again when his fiance, the singer Aaliyah, died in a Bahamas plane crash. Dash shocked co-workers when he strutted through the office only a week after Aaliyah's death. "Once I realized how many people depend on me at Roc-A-Fella, I knew I had to recover," he says...
...barely through the door when one patron noted, loudly and to no one in particular, “Rembrandt went bankrupt! That’s too bad.” I quickly moved to a self-portrait, where an old man stridently lectured his wife on the finer points of the painting. This was just the beginning...
...last 45 years of her life in institutions, incarcerated and medicated, until she died in 1982. Shloss's patient research expands what could have been a footnote to literary history into a tragedy of wasted promise. Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before, a portrait that encompasses both the great writer who subordinated everyone around him to the service of his art and the desperate, doting father who could never quite admit that his daughter was insane. The fragments of Lucia's voice that survive come to us freighted with an almost unbearable sadness. Once, when...
...Back on Dongting Lake, a reed cutter surnamed Song is resigned to the worms invading his body. During the colder months he serves as the plantation's caretaker, living in a makeshift lean-to made of reeds. One of the few ornaments inside his cramped quarters is a portrait of antidisease crusader Chairman Mao. Outside, the ground is littered with the shells of snails whose worms infect workers in warmer weather. Song's drinking and washing water, drawn from a brackish pit by his hut, also teems with Schistosoma worms in the summer. Naturally, Song has been diagnosed with snail...