In a few minutes of screen time, the director, Rouben Mamoulian, has created an unforgettable portrait of show business squalor - still the best I've ever seen.

Notorious was Konstantin's only American film appearance and "one of the unforgettable portraits in Hitchcock's films."

Press material for the show rigorously accentuates the positive: "An unforgettable portrait of America on the threshold of its most exiting era, when a generation believed that anything was possible."

Mr. Anson has etched an unforgettable portrait of back-country Cambodia in a state of dissolution (he leaves the question of responsibility to others to decide).

Despite Ms. Meier's unassuming approach, she has created an unforgettable portrait of a young woman desperate to prove she's as good as any man.

She stares straight out of the canvas with a kind of compassionate irony, trim in her dark suit, red scarf, black stockings and pumps: an unforgettable portrait.

Dunst gives an unforgettable portrait of a woman in the grip of mental illness, brutal and vulnerable by turns.

(In the unforgettable deathbed portrait he did, which is not in the show, her face is shrouded by a snow-white veil.)

And that is what makes the pathos of the portrait all the more unforgettable.

The Beethoven of the early 1820's, the time of the Missa Solemnis, presents one of the unforgettable portraits in artistic history.