Word: portraited
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...helped open young minds to the kind of imagery that belongs to creative expression. We had the same sense of literary splendor when our teacher read -- so carefully and lovingly -- from Thomas Hardy or the Brontes, or when she asked one of us to read Flaubert's word portrait of Emma Bovary...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The years have only burnished the virtues (and rendered quaint the occasional silliness) of this portrait of Russian village life at the turn of the century. The Israeli actor Topol, who starred in the film, headlines a meticulously crafted and dazzlingly danced revival, on Broadway after a national tour...
...such weapons-related technology as computer- operated metal lathes. Iraq in turn has helped make Cardoen, 48, one of the richest men in Chile; his firm, Cardoen Industries, has grossed $400 million from the cluster bombs alone. No wonder that until recently, Cardoen kept President Saddam Hussein's portrait hanging in a place of honor in his Santiago factory...
...collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward is to be a guest of this brood -- especially since it includes teenage Kim (Winona Ryder), to < whom Edward will give his love as soon as he stops giving her the creeps...
...hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough his house is. In the coverage of modern art, Georges Braque's painting is shown in black and white; Christo's sketch is in color. In order...