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...this year, the office is asking much more of its alumni allies. Instead of expecting an objective sketch which will be used to complement a candidate's folder, the office now wants a finished portrait, clearly drawn with the kind of detail that leaves almost no room for error. A revised interview form sent out this year and last asks them to write three short essays outlining a student's potential academic, extracurricular, and personal contributions to Harvard. Even a professional artist cannot be expected to finish a portrait after only an hour sitting. If he wants...
...BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ is at once a Western, a tale of the first Hispanic hero, and a portrait of turn-of-the-century America, and on all three of these levels it works impressively well. Equally impressive is the filmmaker's dedication in producing this unusual movie with a $1.3 million budget, a fraction of the cost of the typical Hollywood release...
...faces are of the famous-politicians, writers, composers, artists and movie stars. But in the half-century that he spent capturing their images, Yousuf Karsh, 74, himself became celebrated as a master of the photographic portrait. A tribute to Karsh's artistry, some 80 prints, is currently on view at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, which is displaying his work in conjunction with the publication of Karsh: A Fifty-Year Retrospective. The book ranges from his classic picture of Winston Churchill, which became a symbol of British resistance during World War II, to a recent photo...
...account of the wise men "warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod"? Brook's accent is more literary than historical, but even here he falters. Lewis Carroll's dream books of Alice are justly represented, but James Joyce's monumental portrait of the unconscious, Finnegans Wake, is accorded two lines. Joseph Heller (Catch-22) is indulgently granted six entries; the great dreamer Poe is given...
Kudos to Theodore White for his touching yet analytical portrait of China in transition. I recently returned from a visit to the homeland that I had never seen. Although its proliferating population remains China's greatest obstacle to modernization, I agree with White that human envy and appetite are potentially equally dangerous perils. While walking down a bustling Shanghai boulevard, I encountered a swarm of people surrounding a street merchant. What was the object of everyone's smiling fascination? A Rubik's Cube...