Word: portraitists
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...appearances in the 1990 Ken Burns TV series on the war; in Memphis, Tenn. He wrote six novels, but his most famous book was a panoramic, three-volume history of the war, written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals. "It's fun, I guess," he said of his stardom. "But I'm dead set against...
Walls, who is a gossip columnist, is a dead-on, dry-eyed portraitist, both of others and of herself. She writes without a drop of self-pity, and she never makes the mistake of allowing her parents to become monsters: they're always flawed yet recognizably human, desperately trying to be themselves and instead destroying everyone around them. The book takes its title from her father's dream house, a fanciful transparent mansion powered by solar energy that he sincerely seems to believe he will one day build. He never does construct his Glass Castle, of course...
...really two great photographers. One was the urbane fashionista whose pictures, like Dovima with Elephants, had a new kind of airborne energy and wit. The other was the unsparing portraitist, whose pictures, like Ronald Fischer, Beekeeper, Davis, California, May 9, 1981, said life is an acute condition
...line and facial sag announces itself. He used that approach to photograph everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Rose Kennedy. But these pictures were not cruel. They were fearless, lucid and unsentimental. As a fashion photographer, Avedon took human vanity to heights even human vanity never dreamed of. As a portraitist, he brought us all back down to earth...
...cheese." This popular photo prompter of the English-speaking world is thought to have begun in British public schools around 1920, though society portraitist Cecil Beaton preferred his subjects to mouth the word "lesbian." Just as perverse, the French often opt for "le petit oiseau va sortir," Spaniards say "patata," while the Japanese have adopted the English term "whisky." As the relator of such delightful trivia, the latest elicitor of the smile is author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal...