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...deep distrust of the decade just past. The poet Robert Lowell once wrote in an ode to a friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...
...positive side, Branagh's stress on ensemble acting makes an interesting case for the play as a portrait of a whole society gone rotten rather than as a personal tragedy. His own portrayal of Edgar, the fugitive son of a mistrustful lord, comes as close as an actor can to making sense of the play's parallel set of antic mad scenes and willful disguises...
...TIME commissioned Davis to paint Mandela as a young man. We sent a copy to South Africa for suggestions on how he had changed. Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod, who wrote this week's cover, showed it to Mandela associates. Using their comments as a guide, Davis painted a portrait of an older Mandela, his hair flecked with gray. Then we faxed a copy of this version to MacLeod, who showed it to Winnie Mandela. "It was like the way police artists work," Davis explains. "You add to the picture and then ask, Is this right? Is there more...
...various renditions, Mrs. Mandela said the unfinished portrait was "the nearest likeness to today's Mandela." But she thought his face was too round, although Davis had caught the hardness in his eyes. Said she: "Years of suffering you can't take away. That expression he did not have before prison...
...Davis created a third portrait of Mandela on a midnight Friday deadline. "This was unlike anything I have ever done before," says the artist, who also illustrated TIME's covers of Captain Joseph Hazelwood and Bernhard Goetz. "Usually there is a lot more information to work with. But the problem is still the basic one: How do you create a portrait faithful to the person...