Word: portraited
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...told in a series of vivid flashbacks, related to an Irish intelligence officer during a cat-and-mouse encounter in Prague. Their vignettes make a compelling side narrative to the main tale, but the best feature of the book is how it builds, brick by dirty gray brick, a portrait of North Korean society that feels far more real than any debriefing. Church's Pyongyang is caught in the familiar time warp of the North's long-soured revolution: it's a place of deserted roads, decaying buildings and rusting trains that creak off to the provinces at walking pace...
...Warsaw Metropolitan Archbishop," he read. Wielgus's resignation, which was accepted by Rome, followed two weeks of allegations that he had collaborated with the secret police during the communist era. "NO! NO! NO!" supporters chanted in the cavernous 13th Century cathedral. "Stay with us!!" Later, they paraded his portrait through the streets of the Polish capital alongside a banner that read: "This is Warsaw's spirit...
After receiving the portrait, the Institute of Politics housed it in Shaheen’s office until the show’s crew came back for it two weeks later...
...portrait here in the IOP Director’s office for a little over two weeks before the show reclaimed it, and, should the portrait return here at some point, we will find an appropriate spot for it then,” Perez said...
Colbert Report Field producer Nicole Savini said that “the traveling portrait will ultimately end up at the Kennedy School...