Word: depicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Musically, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata begins at the end, and so does Franco Zeffirelli's new film. The attenuated strains of the prelude depict not the high spirits and even higher passions of the heroine's demimonde, but the lonely, last-act gasps of a woman dying of consumption; the camera prowls through her empty apartment like a would-be lover who never got the bad news. Suddenly there is a blast of trumpets and the scene is abruptly transformed, flashed back to a glittering party. As the music gathers force, so does the action...
...Excepts from the diary also suggest that this is not the authentic Hitler speaking, because they depict Hitler in a relatively favorable light," Goldhagen added...
...however, as more women opted to pursue careers, the fantasy theme was dropped. Explains President Beatrice Coleman: "We felt that the ads no longer appealed to younger women." In the late '70s, Maidenform began to depict women as doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers and even a basketball referee, with the slogan "The Maidenform woman. You never know where she'll turn up." But since the company wanted to show its products, the ads now featured scantily clad models hanging around a hospital room or a train station with fully clothed...
...long and too often have Black people been made to feel ashamed of their roots among Africa's beautiful cultures because of these "Tarzan" depictions that have been hung over our heads by exploitative and unsensitive mediums such as the Lampoon. It has even gotten to the point where there are many Black people who just cannot stand to hear about their own past heritage in Africa because of all the belittling lies that we have been, and are still being told. And as these lies ruthlessly take away and sense of pride or respect that we as Black people...
...Reagan called ambassadors from the NATO countries into the White House on Wednesday morning for a 15-minute briefing and immediately afterward delivered his televised speech from the East Room. In it, he sought to depict the Soviets as the intransigent party and the U.S. as the flexible one. The failure of the Soviets to make a "serious" counterproposal to the U.S. zero-option plan, he said, "is a source of deep disappointment to all of us who have wished that these weapons might be eliminated ... But I do not intend to let this shadow that has been cast over...