Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Tyrant. With his sitters, La Tour was the most democratic of tyrants. Portraits of the King's daughters were never finished-in order to punish them for failing to keep appointments. La Tour once threatened to walk out of his studio when the King tried to watch him sketching la Pompadour. "My talent," he proudly maintained, "belongs to me." Nowhere was it better displayed than in his self-portraits, in which the illusion of reality is so strong, marveled one 18th century critic, that "it seems as though nature had painted itself." One of the three that survive...
...17th century French Painter Georges de La Tour...
Gutsy Growls. Like most of her blues mates, Dionne was raised in the "church groove," learned her soulful style when she sang in the New Hope Baptist Church of Newark, N.J. She has been spreading the faith ever since. During a recent tour of the East Coast, she attended services at the New Hope church, then drove her Mercedes into Manhattan to conduct her own kind of revival meeting at the Copacabana. Her songbook is a primer course in variety and good taste. Tall and wickedly curvy in a snug, deep-dish gown, she swoops down into gutsy little growls...
...Make Me Over, in 1962 while she was a scholarship student at the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Conn. After the song climbed into the top ten, she answered the call of her manager ("C'mon, baby, you gotta go"), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her "Paris' Black Pearl." Rhapsodized Jean Monteaux in Arts: "The play of this voice makes you think sometimes of an eel, of a storm, of a cradle, a knot of seaweed, a dagger. It is not a voice so much as an organ. You could...
Along the way, the film turns into a tortuous tour of off-beat waterfront locales. There is a sadistic scene in a squash court, a shoot-out in a hall of mirrors, and a visit to a floating brothel full of identical-twin prostitutes. Long before the ending, the movie has been swallowed up in affected effects and ponderous expository scenes. Despite occasional sprightly echoes of his past repartee, and despite a large cast of competent character actors, Gunn seems of much smaller caliber than he was in the living room...