Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portray the University of Texas Negro coed as an innocent lamb shorn of her wool. Ten to one she was a plant, and the campus Commies and associates worked diligently to plant her there...
...Copley, whose father-in-law owned some of the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted the luminous portrait of aging, crusty Painter Gilbert Stuart, and by Charles Willson Peale, who did the study of phlegmatic-looking...
Some, however, do not. And, furthermore, vicious and nearly unrelieved horror is extremely hard to portray on a bright stage so close to the audience as is Eliot's. Within this framework of difficulties, however, the production is admirable. The director, Roger Graef, treats horror boldly and hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which...
ALLEN : What character do you portray...
...that there is a man lying on the beach in "pacific Landscape." He may wonder why the man is such a small part of the picture, he may not at first appreciate the significance of the aesthetic unbalance. But there are many levels upon which Shahn is working to portray this figure of man washed upon the shore denuded of humanity and life as if he were a stone. The picture next to it, Death on the Beach, an enlarged and different view of the body helps to get at the deeper meaning of this picture which has such personal...