Word: portrayal
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...Minds. The statues uncovered at Nippur portray a cross section of Sumerian society. A priestess standing majestically with a ritual cup in one hand and a branch in the other hobnobs with an old woman with a matronly double chin. A bearded man and his wife sit holding hands in one of the very few Sumerian double statues ever found. A carefully carved woman is made of a translucent green stone not yet identified. Her face is of gold-a metal that was believed to possess purifying properties and was frequently used for the noblest parts of the sculptures...
...like a longshoreman and sneezed into the hot towels. But in three strenuous days last week, she became a creditable novice at the famed Gion geisha school. The reason she is pretending to be a geisha is that she has a role in a movie in which she will portray an American actress pretending to be a geisha. And the reason she has the role is that her husband Steve Parker is producing the movie as a sort of byproduct of one of Hollywood's oddest marriages...
...series of formulas. It should appeal to the mind rather than the eye, must force nature to comply with the rigid rules of perspective, proportion and reason. Since form was more permanent than color, it was also more important. Le Brun even wrote a manual on how to portray each emotion...
...show also offered a delicate "texturol-ogy" by Jean Dubuffet-a painting that looks at first like a piece of kitchen linoleum but then turns into a vision of outer space. The thick black crisscrossings of Pierre Soulages nicely complement Hans Hartung's "psychograms," which try to portray emotion through tapered lines of pure force...
...Before such an extraordinary document," wrote the Communist Lettres Françaises grudgingly, "one can't help admiring the candor with which Americans portray their army. The fact that a French producer was authorized to make such a film indicates great liberalism." The film is a 24-minute short titled The Marines, and its producer is François Reichenbach, 38, who made a big New Wave splash last spring with his first full-length movie, the much criticized L'Amérique Insolite (generally translated "unusual"). For his latest effort, a stark study of the Parris Island...