Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the moment of his arrest, Hall's purpose in Nicaragua remained murky. He was permitted brief visits with a U.S. embassy official and with Connecticut Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, who helped secure Hasenfus' release. Dodd reported that Hall "is in good health, he's being treated well." The portrait of Hall that began to emerge was of a troubled loner with a Rambo complex that has earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary...
...some delightful "pure" works of art in this show, like Alexander Calder's little maquette for a huge motorized sculpture at the New York World's Fair -- a small, sharp orrery with strong cosmological overtones. There are also some rarities by lesser-known artists, notably the huge cubist- derived portrait of the workings of a watch by Gerald Murphy, the American expatriate on whom Scott Fitzgerald was to base his character of Dick Diver. . But compared with the knockout confidence of the work of engineers and designers represented in this show, the machine-esthetic painting of '20s and '30s America...
...House; 228 pages; $15.95), in which a broken-down former newspaper reporter finds a new hometown, renewed professional vigor and the love of a much younger woman, all through probing the murder of his next-door neighbor. What lifts the book above the ordinary is a detailed and subtle portrait of the dark side of charity: the victim is the richest woman in town, and the chief suspects are a group of bright young adults whom she singled out for her largesse...
...Danny often jokes that he has had more plays written about him than Abraham Lincoln or Julius Caesar -- six by his count, from Come Blow Your Horn through Broadway Bound -- and older brothers are featured in at least two of Neil's other works. By far the most tender portrait appears in Brighton Beach Memoirs. Zeljko Ivanek, who played the role, recalls learning that Danny wept on seeing the play. Asked why, Danny replied with characteristic bravado and equally characteristic regret, "Because I didn't write...
...realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are -- Daumier, Millet, the Barbizon painters, Fantin-Latour, the rural sentimentalists like Jules Breton, culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion). On the right are academic idealism and romanticism, Ingres and his heirs, Delacroix and his, smooth recipes of Grecian flesh and turbulent Byronic visions of nature. Beyond Courbet on the left, you have Manet...