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Conversations with Gonzales’ friends in the Harvard Law Class of ’82 revealed a portrait of a bright, fun-loving student—the highly motivated son of two Mexican immigrants who overcame steep obstacles to reach Harvard...
...somewhat better-known short Un Chien Andalou, notorious for its striking image of a woman having her eye cut open with a knife. The first film acted as a sketch of its director’s major themes; L’Age d’Or is the full portrait...
...Graham Greene’s case, it seemed that only the artist himself should be trusted to paint his self-portrait...
...master of capturing female beauty and the obvious star of the Paris show (with 46 works) is Kitagawa Utamaro. Little is known of his origins, but in 1791 he won fame both for a series of portraits of "floating-world" beauties and for his notorious affairs with them. Utamaro was arrested in 1804 for an impolitic portrait of the shogun with his concubines, and spent 50 days in irons. He is said to have been so depressed by this public disgrace that he soon died. One of his apprentices married his widow, adopted his name and used it to produce...
...Coffee in a Cardboard Cup” climaxes in sexy “Arthur in the Afternoon,” in which Cassis and Levine cannot seem to get enough of one another. Each number tells a short story, and taken together they paint an ironic portrait of modern life...