Word: portraited
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...crossing paths with celebrities. But on Wednesday they grieved for one. Neighbors and fans erected a makeshift memorial outside the apartment building in which Heath Ledger was found dead on Tuesday afternoon. Among about a dozen bouquets of flowers, handwritten notes and flickering candles stood a hand-drawn portrait of the square-jawed actor, a cigarette jutting from his lips, reminiscent of James Dean, a Hollywood legend who also died young and famous. Ledger was at a point in his career where he had graduated from heartthrob (A Knight's Tale) to serious screen actor (Brokeback Mountain) when a housekeeper...
...once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit, who spurned "the slavery of some dreary job" and "the frivolous and treacherous world" of conventionality. The book had almost drowned in obscurity. Now it has resurfaced to beguile a whole new generation of readers...
...keep her covered up? Or should we instead portray an independent, unapologetic woman who (mostly) practiced what she preached? Beauvoir can no longer defend herself, but I’m tempted to think that she, rather than taking offense at the picture, would have thought it a fitting portrait. After all, she wasn’t so much scandalous as she was mysterious, and what could be more cryptic than turning your back to a curious French public? A feminist who had also mastered the fun of “naughty boy,” Beauvoir may well appreciate this...
...Putin eschews charm, Platon, the great English portrait photographer, exudes it. Putin, we were told, does not pose for portraits. He did for Platon, who was able to tease out of the President a fact that several journalists could not. Putin's favorite Beatles song? Yesterday...
...removal of important papers from the Oval Office. (But the Marine Band played on, and the First lady kept the party going.) The doozy, of course, was in 1814, when the invading Brits set the White House on fire. (Dolley Madison had to smuggle out the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington before the British troops got to the mansion.) Only the outside walls remained standing - and that was probably because of a timely thunderstorm that helped contain the fire. Scorch marks from that blaze are still apparent in some walls in the White House...