Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawyer Owen Marshall put a girl on the witness stand in order to clear her of a charge of lesbianism. "It may just be for rating purposes," says Welby Producer David O'Connell, "but many producers feel homosexuality is a facet of life-and we should depict...
...with careful guidance, and just 16% "scientifically and conceptually acceptable." One film, Drugs and the Nervous System, was singled out for "misleading statements," such as a claim that LSD causes permanent brain damage. Another, "LSD: Insight or Insanity," was described as drawing on "rare, infrequent and experimental" results to depict the dangers of LSD use. According to Richard M. Earle, president of the council, the majority of the films exaggerate drug problems in ways that are "so inaccurate, so unscientific, so psychologically unsound that [they] are doing more harm than good...
...Montgomery trendies out and muddles his abstractions, he has at least had the sense to depict the concrete human characteristics of the trio's surrounding presences--the grasping mediocre manservant. Ganya Ivoglin, his drunkard father and consumptive brother, the soft headed but sweethearted Madame Yepanchin with her sheltered virgin of a daughter; and Lebedev, a disgustingly, dissipated opportunist and hanger-on who has left his family behind him and come to St. Petersburg to find a master who will leash him. Let these come into the action and the audience senses a full, real context (though their actions and dialogue...
...disclosure of Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton's history of mental illness helped obscure all issues by forcing McGovern to seek a new running-mate only days after the Democratic Convention ended. Combined with McGovern's reversal on his welfare proposals, the Eagleton affair permitted Nixon to depict the challenger as an incompetent who could not control his own staff, let alone the country...
They are beautiful songs with their roots in the darkest and most beautiful parts of Africa. They are songs that race back to a time when there was no white man, no whip, no shotgun. They are songs that depict the misery and joy of the human condition, they sound a note of freedom and life in the face of imprisonment and death...