Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surviving players Halberstam sought out, only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans...
...thousands of dusty miles later, My Secret History does that and more. Theroux, 48, reinvents not only his great train odyssey but other chapters of his exotic autobiography as well. The result is the most consistently entertaining of the author's more than two dozen books, a serial portrait of the artist as a young stud that will undoubtedly cause the usual confusion about what is fact and what is fiction...
WHAT did Trout do to have it removed from the airwaves? The TV critics who have seen it say that she has documented the life stories of the young Palestinians, growing up in borrowed land, growing up as non-citizens. It is apparently a violent and less-than-pretty portrait of Israeli rule. This is a story about Palestinian victims and Israeli violence against them...
Alice Walker ascended from the realm of mere literature after Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose...
...artists who embodied it best were Benton, Wood and John Steuart Curry. They hardly knew one another. But it happened that Henry Luce was looking for a patriotic circulation builder for the Christmas 1934 issue of TIME. Walker was duly interviewed, Benton's self-portrait went on the cover, and American regionalism was born. "A play was written and a stage erected for us," Benton would later remark. "Grant Wood became the typical Iowa small towner, John Curry the typical Kansas farmer, and I just an Ozark hillbilly. We accepted our roles...