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...explanation. For final clarification, she did not choose that photo of herself. “Oh my God. I was sooo mad my mom sent that face book picture in! It was the most ridiculous thing.” The Greek column was a prop used in her senior portrait. The photo was left over because she didn’t want to give it out to anybody...
...Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake. For hundreds of years no one could puzzle out how to open it, but finally the pins that held it shut were discovered when the jewel was X-rayed. Inside was - not a lock of the Queen's hair as rumored but a portrait of the ruler herself by miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard. "It was stunning," says Derbyshire. "If you look closely you can see the veins on her forehead...
...sternly criticized for incorrect tonalities while learning nothing of the actual world they will inherit. But the whole movie, made well before Afghanistan achieved its current place in the world's consciousness and at obvious risk along a smuggling route, traffics in ironies of this frightening kind. The distressing portrait that emerges is of a handsome people whose kindly instincts have been subverted by fear, corruption and the desperate struggle to survive...
Theodore Rex could be criticized as a presidential hagiography. It is a portrait of a man of few obvious personal faults, and his political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt?...
Theodore Rex could be criticized as a presidential hagiography. It is a portrait of a man of few obvious personal faults, and his political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt?...