Having said that, the averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me as characteristic of his reflective character, and became intensely engaging.

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With a tap on the Junaio icon, I open the Forbes channel, and in an instant, the previously flat and lifeless portrait of Mark Zuckerberg on the cover springs out of the page at me with a great big set of gleaming white choppers, a suitcase full of freshly printed friends, and a free farm.

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Although most of the works are of submasterpiece quality, the show contains some real treats, among them the everyday beauty of Silvestro Lega's "The Villino Batelli at Piagentina" (1863), the straightforward landscape drawings of Philadelphia illustrator Joseph Pennel (who's a revelation for me), and Sargent's magnificently understated 1913 portrait of Henry James.

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There's also a new digital lens Nokia's pre-installed, dubbed Glam Me, to give selfies (aka personal portrait shots) an extra bit of sheen -- something Nokia tells us its Asian user are clamoring for.

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As a portrait of Bush, we never get more than a slightly underwhelming "my dad never really loved me", father-son melodrama.

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