Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a prolific playwright and novelist whose sharp, witty work sustained a career that spanned seven decades. Her friends included Aldous Huxley and Cecil Beaton and she numbered William Faulkner, Winston Churchill and James Joyce among her admirers. In Gary Carey's biography, however, what emerges is a portrait of struggle and frustration...
...either portrait of the American student--be it of the self-centered Wall Street wanna-be of the Reagan years or the new civic-minded academicians--is all that valid. Chances are that far less than one-tenth of one percent of college students end up making $80,000 in their first year out in the real world. Likewise, whatever recent surveys may suggest about suddenly altruistic and selfless students, it seems unlikely that future college grads will flock in any great numbers to teaching underprivileged high school students...
...read through "Suburban Help Wanted" (Vol. XI, published in Burlington, MA). I browsed the bulletin board ads and even considered calling the Reading Barbershop Quartet and asking them to sing to me over the phone. I finally lost interest after asking in vain for the story of the oil portrait of George Rubin (founder of the store), which was hanging over the meat counter; the butcher boy seemed surprised to see it up there...
Chandra Sharma plays Sweet Sixteen with feeling. Throughout the film, her face is the portrait of wanness and innocence. But in the end, Sweet Sixteen is broken. Drug dealer and pimp Baba (Nana Patekar) beguiles her into a realization of sexuality, though he treats the process as unemotionally as if her were training colts. But what can you expect from a man who decides to whip his pusher in front of a Western journalist who has been interviewing him? Patekar's Baba is fierce and unpleasant, cold and calculating in a way that sends proverbial tingles over the spine...
...take a different approach. "Mapmaking is as much an art form as a science," he argues. Thus he began by visualizing the way each country ought to look on a map, then turned to mathematics to delineate its shape. "What I really did," says Robinson, "was create a portrait of the earth...