Word: portraited
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...talks with former teachers, colleagues, friends and associates, a portrait of Buettner-Janusch emerges that offers a better understanding of his psyche, although it fails to explain fully the motives behind either his drug manufacturing or his attempts at murder...
...also by Georgiadis and supervised by Anna Watkins, are breathtaking, not only sumptuous but redolent of a royal fantasy. The stage is filled with personages who could stroll the mirrored corridors of a palace. The Queen, for instance, wears a lyrical ivory silk dress, inspired by a Van Dyck portrait of Charles I's French wife, to her child's 16th birthday party; when she wakes from a magic spell a century later, she is in an 18th century pannier court costume to preside at the wedding...
...political elite is nervous about the investigation. It is widely assumed that the conclusions will paint a grim portrait of the Israeli government. Shamir's associates are bracing for a verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says...
Avishai, a writer, said he plans to work on "an intellectual portrait of Arthur Koestler," a 20th-century British writer born in Hungary...
...made of flaky pastry, the colors rendered impasto furioso in various hues of saffron-tinted cream cheese, the green bits done in spinach, and detail added with studdings of seeds. It was cut up and eaten by the worshipers. No doubt when and if a major Van Gogh self-portrait comes on the block, there will be a distribution of marzipan ears...