Word: characterizations
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'What impassions me most - much, much more than all the rest of my mŽtier's the portrait, the modern portrait...I should like to do portraits which will appear as revelations to people in a hundred years' time...I am trying to achieve this not by photographic likeness...
The exhibit clearly underscores van Gogh's rejection of ideally beautiful, perfect figures. 'I find a power and vitality which, if one wants to express them in their peculiar character, ought to be painted with a firm brush stroke, with a simple technique,' van Gogh said, referring to the common...
Al Gore must be shaking with restrained delight. Why, you ask? Right now, it doesn't seem like he has much to chuckle about. His post-convention bounce (which put him nearly 10 points ahead of Bush) has evened out into a statistical neck-and-neck. Yes, it looks like...
"There is an established character in this area," said John Pitkin, who heads the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association. "This is in no sense complimentary."
Almost Famous has a lot of smart lines, but the best are in Patrick Fugit's face. Fugit, who plays the teen Crowe character, William Miller, has a baby face, creased with dimples and given to grins, but it is stuck on a tall, gawky body. Then he speaks, and...