Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing bitter about Broderson's vision of the world, but he is drawn to themes of sadness and is fascinated by ritual. Just as he may portray a tale of rape and murder that has been repeated century after century by the Kabuki players of Japan, as in The Nun and the Skull, so he is drawn to the bull rings, where year after year man and beast have performed their ballet with death. Then he might do a painting of a little girl listening to "the sound of flowers," or of two praying nuns...
...12th to the 16th centuries, he owns some that date as late as the 18th century. "I simply buy the most beautiful things I can find," he says. The miniatures come from medieval books of songs, proverbs and prayers, or from the great Books of Hours. Though most portray religious subjects, there are scenes from the history of Troy and the works of Aristotle, even a scene showing Caesar receiving a German ambassador. Since the miniatures were never exposed to light as much as ordinary paintings, they furnish an especially vivid record of the medieval mind. One can almost hear...
Terence Stamp, as Billy Budd, is authentically simple. When he prefaces his hanging with the slightly reminiscent cry, "God bless Captain Vere," he does not portray Christ; he is a touching, naive sailor unable to understand the evil around him. He seems insanely stupid, yet real, when he fails to understand Claggart's malice and vengeful eyes...
Claggart (played by Robert Ryan) himself cannot comprehend the spectacle before him; he forces himself to see evil in Billy. In a pathetic scene, he exhorts Squeak to portray Budd as a mutineer. Ryan plays the perfect villain; watching a whipping delights him to the point of ecstasy...
Novelist Bell writes this way, and it must have seemed to him that the technique was ideally suited to his scheme, which was to portray a marriage as the turbulent confluence of two mighty streams of lineage. Daniel (Southerner, painter, battler with Furies) and Lucy (descendant of Philadelphians, Quaker, placid repository of honor) have been married for several years when family duty demands a temporary separation. He flies to Mississippi to straighten out the affairs of a dotty aunt; she travels to the bedside of a stern Quaker uncle. The distance between husband and wife and their return to their...