Word: depict
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...anything but fairness when the president indicates that his friends are not accountable under the law. Bush's pardons were perhaps his final presidential act of elitism. After using Willie Horton to depict Michael Dukakis as soft on crime four years ago, Bush has released his buddies on a permanent furlough...
...display of the Vukovar photographs now hangs in the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade. Applied art indeed. They depict slaughters of amazing awfulness, performed with a conscienceless ingenuity that makes a man want to resign from the human race. Here, for example, we see an instrument that looks like a tuning fork, but with the prongs more widely spaced, about 3 1/2 inches apart. A local trademark is to gouge out both eyes. Hence this handy device. Studies in the Balkan Department of Comparative Atrocity...
Opponents of the initiative would have you think differently and have invested over $5 million in a carefully crafted negative ad campaign. Using some of the most cynical rhetoric of this politics-as-sausage-making season, the "No on Three" campaign has attempted to depict the moderate ballot question as the embodiment of all the evils associated with legislation of this sort--President Bush with his repeated denunciations of the "spotted owl crowd" would be proud...
Staring at the walls of doctors' offices while awaiting their turn, 21st century Americans may see a colorful chart hanging next to the traditional diplomas and the renderings of skeletal parts and organs. It will depict the 23 pairs of human chromosomes and pinpoint on each one the location of genes that can predispose people to serious disease...
...involving and witty script shocked its 1940 audience (and critics) with its willingness to depict characters and lifestyles which had until then remained taboo...