Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with pricked ears and pointed muzzle makes a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't appearance among swipes of black and reddish-brown on the bare canvas ground, seems to reflect Winslow Homer's The Fox Hunt. Among the later paintings are versions of a Titian portrait, of a Flight into Egypt by Jacopo Bassano, and of a Manet still life: For E.M., 1981, in which the colors and placing of fish, copper pot and black wall remain as gleams and traces after the objects themselves have gone...
...office at the Kennedy School of Government sits a large Dukakis '88 portrait--unhung...
...peaceful character of the sit-in was a tribute to the political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University...
Even if some of the demonstration's rhetoric was borrowed from America, it was the Soviet Union and, more specifically, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose presence counted more than any other. Countless banners lauded PIONEER OF GLASNOST, while posters with his portrait declared him AN EMISSARY OF DEMOCRACY...
When the Gazeta Wyborcza (Electoral Gazette) hit the newsstands in Warsaw last week, the paper not only had the day's hottest story, it was the story. The first Solidarity daily ever to be published legally in Poland, the Gazeta ran a large portrait of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and an account of his meeting with Jozef Cardinal Glemp. The edition also carried six pages profiling the union's candidates in next month's parliamentary elections...