Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrait of Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos, TIME turned to one of Mexico's leading artists, Rufino Tamayo. A stout antiCommunist, Tamayo has long been frozen out of the bread-and-butter work of decorating the public buildings of his native land by the Communist clique of muralists headed by David Siqueiros and the late Diego Rivera. As a result, he leads the life of a wandering expatriate, painted this week's cover in Paris. He recently finished another Paris commission-a mural depicting Prometheus bringing heavenly fire to men, in the newly opened...
...early life in and out of French colonial jails. Le was all right in guerrilla days when he confiscated enough rice from the peasants to feed Ho's troops, in return for which he issued bales full of newly minted dongs, all bearing Ho's portrait. But running an economy of 12 million people came a little harder. Today, salaries and taxes are still computed in bags of rice, and on this basis a worker earns 300 bags a year, while his counterpart in non-Communist South Viet Nam gets the currency equivalent of 1,500. In Hanoi...
...Colonel Cantrell, a cold collation of cliches, who provides a brutal portrait of a modern British bureaucrat. ¶ Sophie Bielska, who is destroyed by her own Anglophilia. She loves to say "dash it all," and her finest hours are those she spends with her fine British friends; happily, perhaps, she never makes it to an England that never was. ¶Herbert Wragg, whose honeymoon was spoiled because the toilet paper at the progressive boarding house he stayed at consisted of squares from the Daily Worker...
...this respect, as in so many others, the sculptor Maillol is comparable to Renoir, whose portrait he modeled superbly. Both maximized, late in life, a union of sensuosity and innocence which characterizes their work. Both were passionately fond of the beautiful, even of the pretty, and achieved a voluptuousness and bursting fullness which epitomizes the joy a poet finds in all nature. Both were especially involved with the rhythm of the female form. Maillol wrote, "Girlhood with its fresh bloom, its flowerlike innocence, its confidence in life, is for me the world's greatest wonder...
Left to perform without the chorus, the dancers alternated "show" and serious numbers. Amy Greenfield's "Jungle Drums" dance was easily the most spectacular feat of the evening. requiring amazing subtleties of rhythm and control. And "Le Petit Mal De La Jeunesse," a portrait of teenagers today, danced by Penny Carver, Elizabeth Theiler, and Tom Glick, took the entertainment honors. The trio slid, slunk, crumpled and twitched to the beat of a jazz ensemble and Mark Mirsky's narrative...