With a larger-than-life portrait, Isaac Paris Jr. goes no farther than the photograph that he worked from.

"Some claim that this rally is against the president," said Mr. Zubeidah, who marched in front of a larger-than-life portrait of Mr. Arafat.

His men wear black shirts and black pants and carry larger-than-life portraits of him.

In any case, the most startling of the Modernist pieces is an all-gray, larger-than-life portrait of Betty Parsons, which Theodoros Stamos painted in 1947 after seeing Indian rock pictures in New Mexico.

A larger-than-life portrait of a simple, perfect crème caramel made me wish I had a spoon, but the companion essay about making the caramel, and another about custard satisfied my culinary intellect.

As he did in his earlier work, Mr. Sugimoto gives a superficial sameness to his slightly larger-than-life portraits.

On one side it depicts a larger-than-life portrait of "Sky Xul" himself seated cross-legged in the open jaws of an enormous crocodile-mountain hybrid monster.

The Pope and the Paraguayan leader then exchanged speeches under a larger-than-life portrait of the general.

And, if you must know, Swann and Vincent, whose larger-than-life portraits as children face you through the front window opposite at No 14, are the sons of the owner.

In his meeting with American journalists, Mr. Aivazashvili stood beneath a larger-than-life portrait of Lenin and spoke through an interpreter from Intourist, the Soviet tourist agency.