Word: portraited
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...France and the Portrait, 1799-1870." This installation of works from the permanent collections explores the changing conventions and practice of portraiture in France between the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the Second Empire...
...instance, women press their hands together as if in prayer, then proceed to turn them and place them over their heads in a portrait of bondage. The effect is disturbing...
...Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy and class-conscious Savannah--mannered, monied and soaked to its soul in the finest bourbon...
...write a "love story" for his movie studio. Sometimes Douglas gets her details wrong. Gertrude Stein's famous tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose"), for example, does not begin with "A," as the book quotes it. But these are minor flaws in an erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis, both of which had a sense "of having been a specially privileged and charged site of American experience.'' We shall not see their like again, and too bad for that...
...doesn't have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some 60 years ago, and if so, whether the portrait was the token of a love affair...