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...Monhegan Island, and almost wished he hadn't come. Even his 1967 portrait of the late John F. Kennedy was disappointing in retrospect. "I'm terribly unsatisfied with it," said Jamie, who never saw J.F.K. in the flesh and completed the portrait from photographs and extensive sketches of the President's two brothers. "It's purely interpretive. I have nothing to equate it with. I don't know whether it is like him or unlike him." Still, the young artist must be doing something right: he has been commissioned by NASA authorities to join Robert...
President Nixon could hardly have chosen a more engaging personal emissary to the investiture of the Prince of Wales. Tricia Nixon was clearly, as London's admiring Daily Sketch put it, "America's little princess." The papers wrote columns on her blonde, Dresden-doll beauty and easy grace as she moved through a schedule that might have daunted a seasoned diplomat: tea with the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a spate of cocktail parties, and a trip to Wimbledon for the tennis quarterfinals-not to mention the investiture. Even her father's erstwhile opponent Hubert Humphrey...
...Broadway 1776. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about this musical, which presents history as painted by a sidewalk sketch artist. The Peter Stone book depends on the audience to expect the expectable and to bring along its own worn coloring crayons to fill out the roles...
Maria died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1829, and her death utterly shattered Constable. "The face of the world is totally changed for me," he told a friend. He wore mourning for the nine remaining years of his life. To assuage his sorrow, he turned to a sketch that he had made of the ruins of Hadleigh castle, which stood near the mouth of the Thames. In the completed painting, while the ruined castle becomes a monument to Constable's grief, the scudding clouds, the glistening rocks and the sparkling leaves display a fervent commitment to self-renewing life...
Only in one brief sketch does the movie suggest the bitter suite of insights that might have been. An ex-infantryman walks the Bastogne town square, explaining to a girl friend the Allied side of the Battle of the Bulge. As he stomps along, he passes a German ex-soldier who volubly outlines the battle to his wife. Booming away, the men pass like bateaux mouches gliding over an ancient shipwreck...