Word: portraited
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...would have worked better. The appeal of his fantastically successful Halloween lay in the unadorned menace of the villain; New York could have served a similar function. It is a city of extremes, both good and bad, and Carpenter, might have seized its evil and wrung from it a portrait of malignancy out of control. But he didn't. He didn't even try. It wouldn't have been that difficult--all he had to do was ride the subways...
...lucky enough to have eight competing newspapers any more, and probably no modern managing editor would ignore an earthquake in which a million Chinese died to preserve a human interest story about a rooster. Yet the play still works as media criticism and, even more, as a psychological portrait of newspapermen: brawling boys in love with spectacle and hubbub, literally snapping towels at each other in a courthouse pressroom flanked by lockers...
...childhood bouts of pneumonia and scarlet fever and was unable to walk until she was nine. But Wilma Rudolph overcame these obstacles to become the fastest woman in the world and win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics. At the opening in Washington last week of the National Portrait Gallery's new summer show, "Champions of American Sport," Rudolph, 41, stopped by a photograph of her Olympic victory in the 400-meter relay. When she is not working on her third book (on how to be a successful working mother), she is heading up the Olympic Experience Program...
...ending is a preachy letdown, what goes before it makes The Fan a surprisingly worthwhile exercise in suspense, a bright, brisk horror show that someone over the age of 16 can sit through enjoyably. And profitably, since it provides an acute, cautionary portrait not only of an all too recognizable lunatic of our time, but of the enviable people and milieu that, viewed from his furnished room, drive him crazy. -By Richard Schickel
Sitting at his too high desk, Koch can gaze straight across at La Guardia in a portrait, who stares straight back with all the severity due a competitor...