Word: self-portrait
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...Dine. It goes back to 1964, when he saw an ad illustrating one in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he later remarked, "but when I saw it, it looked like me. I thought I was in it." It became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo. The open V of the lapels gapes like a pair...
Howard Hughes has been many things to many men-and women. But TIME's cover portrait of the dying junkie billionaire seems to be stretching artistic license rather thin by giving us not reality, the wreck, but an almost mirror image of Leonardo da Vinci's last self-portrait...
More than any other nation, the image America projects to us of itself conforms in diverse ways with our own, much smaller self-portrait. What we see is a country that graduated through the same school of ideas...
...Hood had punched a Vietnamese official for deprecating his own people. Dismissed, he wandered to London where he has set up house with a bunch of almost comical terrorists: Mayo, a rich woman who works for the Irish Republican Army Provisionals and has stolen a Van der Weyden self-portrait which no one seems to want back; Murf, a boy who makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend who plants them. Together, they form a family of sorts, arguing about what to watch on television while a room full of weapons sits upstairs. They are a family with interconnecting lives...
Blind Ambition is Dean's long-awaited accounting of the part he played in America's worst and most public political scandal. Sparsely told and crammed with intriguing dialogue, it presents a surprisingly unflattering self-portrait. Dean berates himself as "a squealer" and describes himself as too "naive and guppy-like" to object to the criminal activities in Richard Nixon's White House-at least until it was too late...