Word: depict
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...Governor (1982-86), Robb frequently spent weekends at Virginia Beach without his wife Lynda. He has since been haunted by tales of cocaine-scented parties attended by young women with few inhibitions. When Robb's Senate aides investigated the charges, they recorded their findings in private memorandums. The papers depict the Governor as having oral sex "with at least half a dozen women 20 to 25 years his junior at random times." His assistants also obtained information indicating that Robb had associated with "people who were heavy drug users and served federal prison sentences on . . . drug-related charges...
...music, became freighted with contentiousness. Soon Steve Martin was introducing politically correct comedy to the smoking debate. "Mind if I smoke?" he imagined someone asking him, then replied, "No. Mind if I fart?" In the '80s, even James Bond felt bad about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean rebelliousness. Denis Leary's very funny pro-smoking rants are essentially ironic; taken seriously, they would come across as nostalgia for a life misspent. In the recent film Reality Bites, the one hint...
During yesterday's testimony, Kontos askedquestions designed to depict the city councilloras a poor Cambridge boy who made good...
During yesterday's testimony, Kontos askedquestions designed to depict the city councilloras a poor Cambridge boy who made good...
...remembrance of those days of liberation and excess segues into a recollection of the coming of AIDS. The men depict a landscape of fear, ignorance, and sorrow. Wayne Corbitt, a Black performance poet and play wright, begins to cry as he recalls the his lover's death of AIDS. It's a difficult moment, painful to watch, but one that demonstrates the extent to which the men in the documentary bared their souls for the camera...