Eighteen years ago, John Sayles might have boiled down this back-to-basics portrait of a paralyzed, bitter white soap star (Mary McDonnell) and her strong-willed black caretaker (Alfre Woodard) into a twenty-page short story.

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Take a few steps back to shoot a wider environmental portrait.

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One day, he mounted a rearview mirror on the far wall of the classroom so that he could stare at the portrait of Milton behind his back.

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The English portrait painters of the 18th century are coming back into vogue once again.

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Back at the family home, visitors are greeted by a big portrait of Samaruddin, and an inscription praising him as a hero.

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It is a portrait of his parents, and every ancestor he ever had back to the beginning of Life in the universe.

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After a warts-and-all portrait of Assange appeared on the front page of The Times back in October, the relationship between the paper and the leaker-king soured.

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"It brings back memories, " he said of the portraits, adding that he had a copy of his portrait hanging in his home.

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The VF app offers the same scrubber, but its floating nav bar works only in portrait mode, forcing the user to switch out of landscape if he wants to bounce back to the Table of Contents.

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