Word: portraited
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...safe" house, use of automobiles, work methods, appointments, contact with relatives, personal care and what to do in case of arrest. Ringing a kind of middle-class change on Mao's dictum that guerrillas should mix with the people as fish swim in water, the handbook conveys a portrait of an organization that is both rigorously disciplined and shrewd...
DIED. James Whitney Fosburgh, 67, portrait and landscape painter who under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson served as chairman of a special committee to buy American paintings for the White House; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Vincente Minelli masterpiece comes delightfully close to topping them all. It swirls and taps about a musical within a musical, featuring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse as two cool professionals who warm up like toaster coils in the course of the production. Jack Buchanan, as the director, is a portrait in Orson Welles-like pomposity and does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts...
...past 50 years because Davis usually gives the viewer a little piece of reality to hang on to--a word or a number slipped in among patches of color, or a form that distinctly resembles a human being. These touches are somehow reassuring to those who prefer traditional portrait and landscape art; Davis uses the reassurance to persuade viewers to move further into his art and enjoy the clever play of lines and shapes without worrying about what it all "means" or whether or not it is "good...
...spines. The overture and an early number that re-enacts the original curse freeze the viewer's blood, but as the plot progresses the mood shifts to a more comic melodrama, complete with Dracula-like capes and ominous laughter. The chills resume in force during Act Two's climactic portrait scene, in which the paintings of deceased Murgatroyds literally come alive--a moment that is as visually dazzling as it is technically brilliant...