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...decked out in full debutante regalia. With blonde hair and an easy smile, Long looks as if she’d be at right at home on a camelia-covered veranda in a classic film. “It’s a seven-foot by four-foot portrait of me standing in my debutante dress, wearing my gloves, and holding my purse. There’s a French-blue background and our antique chairs behind me,” says Long, laughing self-deprecatingly. “My mom is very old-fashioned,” explains the native...
...kind of a rite-of-passage thing,” she says. “It was my turn; I was joining the club.” Similar to Long, Player’s family has a tradition where, after her debut, each young woman has her portrait made in her debutante dress. Her grandmother then displays all the pictures on a table in her house. “I wasn’t on it yet,” Player says with a smile. “So I was like, ‘I made...
...something different: "That is the most perfect picture of a trapped rat I've ever seen--bug-eyed, helpless and hopeless." A woman from Florida saw a regretful expression and mused, "If only Arafat acted as contrite as he looks." And a Vancouver, B.C., man derided "the reverential cover portrait" as "missing only a halo to present Arafat as a distinguished statesman...
...Rees, Mount Vernon's executive director, declares that Washington "at age 23 was already the action hero of his times." Using the skills of a forensic scientist, a plastic surgeon and a life mask of the President's face, Mount Vernon will create a more youthful and vital portrait and build a new orientation center, education center and museum to play up his action-hero side. Steven Spielberg is even making a new 15-min. bio film. Indiana George and the Battle of Trenton, maybe? --By Melissa August
...think that if this is a fair and reasonably accurate portrait of growing up in America, then it's relevant to kids at Harvard...