Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...library to accomplish its mission, it must provide a meaningful education program. I do not argue here that presidential libraries are unimportant, nor that this one in particular has been planned in a grandiose fashion. Quite the contrary, because the program has been imaginatively designed to depict the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it will surely become a major tourist attraction...
...soon believe. Parents are the go-betweens, handing down beliefs from the very old to the very young. In sharp contrast to the current American preoccupation with youth, this elderly population revels in its years. The sagacity of age is valued more than the vivacity of youth. Psychologists often depict these people as brutalized by modern America and robbed of their self-esteem, but these Hispanic-Americans feel that they are emminently important human beings, worthy of the love, respect and veneration they receive from their grandchildren. The fierce pride instilled in their children is indicative of their whole approach...
...longtime adviser to Richard Nixon; of a blood clot resulting from an auto accident; in Washington, B.C. Alternately good-natured and blunt, Chotiner was a sharp Los Angeles criminal lawyer and a cunning, bare-knuckled politician who first met Nixon during the 1946 congressional campaign and advised him to depict his opponent, Jerry Voorhis, as an ally of Communism. Chotiner planned a similar strategy for Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Chotiner advised Nixon at the time of his famous "Checkers" speech in 1952, but their relationship was temporarily dissolved in 1956 when Chotiner was called...
...fact, Nixon's new game plan of an all-out fight against impeachment, coupled with White House efforts to depict the House process as a political vendetta rather than a judicial inquiry, is doubtless aimed at the vote of the House on the committee's finding. The President knows that the members of the House are caught on the horns of a cruel dilemma, indeed several dilemmas. They have been sent back to Washington with contradictory messages from the folks at home. Most Americans think that the President is guilty of one charge or another in the Watergate...
...Gethsemanic agonies of Blatty's metaphors ("the Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt"). A famous movie star (Ellen Burstyn) and her daughter are on location in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., when the daughter is possessed by a raging demon-the Devil himself. To depict the permutations of this evil spirit, Director Friedkin and Writer Blatty go in for cheap shocks and crude novelty. There are gruesome details of an encephalogram being taken on the girl in search of some physical origin for her symptoms; there are also scenes showing her genitals being maimed with a crucifix...