Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illusion of Spontaneity. For a man who is supposed to adore the late President, Manchester did not hesitate to portray him in his last hours as harassed and irascible. J.F.K. is described as chewing out Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh for wrongly forecasting cool weather in Texas. He orders Jackie to wear "simple" clothes to "show these Texans [original version: "those rich Texas broads"] what good taste really is." While making a speech in Houston, Kennedy's hands shook so violently that they seemed palsied. "To his audiences," writes Manchester, "his easy air seemed unstudied. The illusion of spontaneity...
...farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to Mondrianesque simplicity yet they stand at symphonic distance from the Dutch abstractionist's boogie-woogie colors. Twachtman's task was to portray tranquillity in nature almost at her vanishing point...
Sickles had a personality obstacle to overcome. Despite his youth and appearance, he was really a wishy-washy pearance, Tydings had reportedly hedged on backing him because of this. His campaign tried to portray him as active and enthusiastic. It helped, but it could have helped more in Prince Georges--his home county--which he lost to Finan by less than 1000 votes...
...minutes is dogged doomward by the police (Barry Sullivan), his wife's father (Lloyd Nolan), a former mistress (Janet Leigh), and his own conscience. The few amusing moments are provided by Actor Whitman, a young man with a large chest and a small talent who apparently intends to portray Modern Man in Search of a Soul, but actually looks like a beach boy stumbling around in search of a lost volleyball...
...also shows Jonah in idyllic repose under the gourd vine, and includes a freestanding orant, probably Jonah, which Wixom calls "one of the most moving depictions of a figure in prayer in the entire history of art." It is thus the only such group in the world to portray the Jonah story from beginning to end. The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum. As for the artist, scholarship can only produce guesses; he was almost certainly Greek, or at least Greek trained, and probably pagan. Even the site at which the marbles were recently...