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...shock piece, a sort of dramatic danse macabre acted out by a demented, tyrannical king (MacLean) and his distraught fool (Bramhall). Riders to the Sea centers on the death by drowning of the last two male members of a once-large Irish family. Madness is not so difficult to portray, once you get the knack of it. Grief is a good deal harder...
...testimony Bullitt stated "The book is a deliberate work of art, not a great one by any means, but an effort to portray a complex character. It presents a theme common to the eighteenth century, the education of a woman as she learns the value of love...
Drawing on sound anatomical knowledge, Barye built his clay models up from the skeleton. Though his sculptures are on a tabletop scale, they make picturesque heroes out of wild animals, emphasizing their surging power and proud cruelty in a way that artists have never truly bothered to portray since. Other notable animaliers included Christophe Fratin, son of a taxidermist, and Rosa Bonheur, who later mistakenly gave up sculpture for painting...
...approximation of Dostoevsky's view of 19th century Russia, a "sublime, universal, ordered chaos." In fact, the Soviet economy is only moderately chaotic. Its high-priority sectors can be impressively efficient, though not so efficient perhaps as the Russians, with their infinite capacity for self-deception (or salesmanship?), portray them. This, and pride in their real achievements, explains the litany that ranges from housing ("A new five-story building goes up every five minutes") to industrial production...
Time, in its puerile eagerness to portray the Harvard undergraduate as giddy and faddish, has stumbled blindly past the deepest source of Bogart's popularity. Ah, Time, beneath that rugged grain lie vast wellsprings of tender vulnerability. Behind the carpe diem don't-give-a-damn throb the profundities of ultimate concern. To Time, Bogey, in sex as in all, is hard-boiled egoistic opportunist. We know what he is really after. A little bare Thou...