Word: portraited
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Women are the only subjects in the portrait genre. Significant settings or texts often emphasize their traits or potential. In contrast to the tradition of their genre, these portraits possess political relevance. In refusing to depict women as sexual commodities, the works stand in marked contrast to prevailing media imagery...
KING EDWARD VIII by Philip Ziegler (Knopf; $24.95). The great crown-for-love scandal gets a decidedly unromantic treatment in this diplomatic but by no means flattering portrait of the moonstruck Duke of Windsor, the man who gave up his throne for a career as the husband of American-born Wallis Simpson...
...under a psychopath's scalp nor in making Laura a feminist hero. At its end she is still the harassed girl, misreading signs of threat and dropping her gun at inopportune moments. So the actress must play Laura's fragility instead of her strength. It makes for another indifferent portrait in a bland Roberts gallery. As such -- go figure -- it will probably make a Fort Knox bundle...
...several conversations with Salem, who was speaking by satellite phone from Kuwait City, a portrait of life there emerged. "We still have water and power," he reported last week, "so we are better off here than in Baghdad. But the Iraqis cut off gas on Thursday, and they are back to their old ways. Eleven Kuwaitis were executed on Wednesday and Thursday, and house-to-house searches, which had fallen off since the war started, have now picked up again." According to Salem, the Iraqis are still hunting the few remaining foreigners in Kuwait City, and reports of Iraqi defections...
When Bernini was to do a sculpture of Charles and would not come to England, it was Van Dyck who supplied the "natural" image of the King -- three faces, looking left, right and straight ahead -- from which the Roman artist was to work. Van Dyck's portraits of Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria fixed them for posterity with a completion that few later artists could rival. They have the subtlest quality of propaganda: they make you forget that they are propaganda. If we think of Charles as the cultivated king par excellence, it is largely thanks to Van Dyck. There...