Word: depicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who work for newsmagazines sometimes wish that life were really as the novelists depict it-full of eccentrics who collect iguanas and medicine writers who come down with the exotic diseases they have just described...
...their sets to find out which sinner did the dastardly deed to J.R. But the show also turned off an increasingly militant minority of viewers: in the past nine months half a million Christians have pledged themselves to boycott the products of sponsors of television programs like Dallas that "depict scenes of adultery, sexual perversion or incest, or which treat immorality in a joking or otherwise favorable light...
...make no mistake about it, Mr. Gershman has gone to great lengths to depict the Black bourgeoisie as a parasitic and exploitative class and to argue that their racial approach to the analysis of the Black condition "has benefitted those least in need and has perpetuated the dependency of the underclass." Moreover, we are now to believe that to struggle against racism and class exploitation is to use the Black underclass as a political base from which to "threaten--and extract concessions from the society." Such analysis leads one to assume, that if we did not struggle for better jobs...
...spite of these revelations, D'Amato has successfully managed to depict himself as the candidate of the overtaxed and under-appreciated middle class, an average guy in contrast to the intellectual Javits and the Harvard-educated Holtzman. The man who once stood next to Howard Jarvis at a rally and promised to lead the-fight for a Proposition 13 in Nassau County is now promising to lead the Senate fight for Reagan's tax-slashing policies. A vehement opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion, D'Amato, it seems, would prefer to keep women in the kitchen: he even...
...than any other President in history. Records show he has held more televised news conferences -59-and had his picture taken individually with more people than any of his predecessors. He cites the facts himself, proudly, as if they prove that he is not the distant figure his critics depict...