Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitting and yet how ironic that your cover portrait of Ben-Gurion with rays of light descending upon his head should remind one of Moses leading Israel out of Egypt...
Robert Vickrey is an excellent addition to your staff of cover artists; his portrait of M. Dior is in perfect harmony with your amusing article. Christian's perplexed expression confronted with oversized dressmaker's shears is superb...
...tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...
Painting an unmelting, bleak, cynical portrait of the road to prostitution, the plot involves a girl whose mother was early gotten with child and was left by her lover to a life of menial toil. The mother wants her child to have a "better life," ease and riches, etc. She sets her buxom daughter up as an artist's model with hopes that she will make "connections." The daughter is picked up by a chauffeur on his day off and has a very earnest affair with him, finally becoming engaged. While he is out of town, a fellow-model persuades...
...this setting-much of it familiar Greenery-Milty Hall emerges as a boozy bounder who resembles one of Dostoevsky's moral idiots with gin instead of vodka to fuel his false fires. He is a middle-class spiv of genius, a portrait of all those who can make love or a piece of change among the ruins. In the wake of World War II armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick...