Word: portraited
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...solitude is broken in the final room where the tone abruptly changes. There, bold early 20th-century works dominate. The American artists abandon somber colors for brighter hues in works which are no longer constrained to the traditional landscape and portrait genres...
...HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. Running into Henry is like winning a satanic lottery; you die, at random. John McNaughton's icy essay in depravity, made for peanuts in Chicago four years ago, forces the moviegoer to stare into the face of evil...
...what if X also stands for exemplary, exciting, extraordinary? Such is the case with two new films -- The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- given the X tag. Their distributors have rightly decided to release these strong, disturbing melodramas as is, uncut and without the MPAA's rating. They will strut naked into the marketplace, allowing adult audiences to judge for themselves whether this is porno...
...California, only to face brute exploitation as field hands. After two failed novels, he finally got it right on his third try, and after two years of developmental productions, Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe has finally succeeded in adapting his epic tale for the stage. The best measure of this portrait of a family in agony and dissolution is that it is actually better -- less sentimental and truer -- than the landmark 1940 film version...
...candor and subtlety of its homosexual subtheme -- but only one reason why it actually happened. The vital factor was the availability of Kathleen Turner, steamiest of movie queens, to play Maggie the "cat," steamiest of Williams heroines. Turner's name is billed alone above the title; her solo portrait (in a slip) graces the program cover; her presence has drawn the $2 million advance sale. Thus the crucial question is whether Turner, who debuted on Broadway in the lighthearted Gemini in 1978 and has not been back since, can handle the role. The answer is an emphatic yes. What...