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When Sir Winston Churchill, the great British Prime Minister, reached his eightieth birthday in November, 1954, he was presented with his portrait by a well-known modem artist, Graham Sutherland.The painting had been ordered and paid for to
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the Grand Old Man of World WarⅡ.
Sir Winston and Lady Churchill were deeply moved by this
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of respect and affection.
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of them, of course, allowed the others to see how much they both disliked the portrait. “It makes me look
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, which I am not!” protested Churchill in private(私下).
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, he only remarked that it was fine example of modern art. His friends smiled.It was known that Churchill didn't
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modern art.
Churchill was so unhappy about the portrait that finally his wife had it
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. Churchill died at ninety in 1965.Land Churchill
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him in 1977.Shortly after her death, the public learned what had happened to the
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, and a heated argument broke out. The painter was
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sad.The artist community, shocked and
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, said that the destruction of the picture had been a crime (罪行). Historians said that they regretted the disappearance of a(n)
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