Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the procession which escorted Zhdanov's body from the ornate, white-columned hall of Dom Soyuzov (House of Unions), where it lay in state, to Red Square, two blocks away, walked a group carrying a giant portrait of the dead man. Next came nine generals, one admiral, three civilians, each carrying on a red plush pillow one of Zhdanov's 13 military, naval and civilian decorations. 'The open red and black draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green...
...industry's tight-lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg...
...Strobl has designed some 30 monuments, modeled innumerable portrait busts, and won a commanding postion in the middle-European art world. A diplomatic fellow, who gets along with the Russians without antagonizing too much those who don't, he returned last year from a month's visit to England and immediately accepted an invitation to tour Russia. George Bernard Shaw, whom De Strobl once "busted," neatly ticketed the sculptor's somewhat bland art when he described the portrait of himself as being "what I should like to look like. Perhaps I shall some day, if I contemplate...
Well, the cover portrait of him is perfect. The Pied Piper motif-oh, drop dead! I'm one of the rats...
...Picture, That Lady in Ermine, presents Betty as an Italian countess (she is also an ancestress who conies down from her portrait on the castle wall-but no matter, it is only Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such...