Word: depiction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depict Dixy Lee Ray as a charming, inoffensive goldfinch is singularly inappropriate. A better choice would have been a grizzly bear-and with a sore...
...details from Reilly's life are somewhat glossed over or romanticized in Connery's book. Connery gives an explicitly detailed account of his mother's bizarre lifestyle, but he gives Reilly, in cases, more credit than he actually deserved, by failing to back up illogical claims. Connery tried to depict Reilly as exceptionally intelligent, when he apparently was not. Reilly had so little self-confidence that the police easily brainwashed him into confessing. Connery glosses over this tragic weakness in Reilly's character...
...looked like she had spent too much time in bowling alleys"-and Haynes has concentrated less on an alibi for Davis than on his wife's reputation. Last week he put on the stand William Rufner, a convicted felon and former lover of Priscilla's, hoping to depict him as a possible suspect. Priscilla stands to gain millions by her husband's conviction, Haynes argued, while Gavrel, the other key witness, has a $13 million damage suit pending against Davis...
...EDOUARD MANET painted At the Railroad Station; four years later Claude Monet painted a similar scene. Manet chose to depict two pretty women sitting under a sunny sky with the station creating a bland industrial backdrop. Monet omitted the smiling women, painting only the dark, smoky blue train station; and the opening shot of Julia is a technicolor replica of his ominous image--an image that is repeated frequently throughout the film. Julia is the story of Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) and her childhood friend (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she christens "Julia," who together lost the insular beauty of their adolescence...
...Debby, Kathleen Quinlan conveys the fear, isolation, anger and occasional joy of the schizophrenic convincingly, but Page's failure to do more than superficially explain why she feels these emotions makes it difficult to empathize with what could have been a superlative job of acting. Page's attempt to depict Debby's fantasy world, to which she retreats from an unpleasant reality, further emphasizes his direction's shallowness. Green described a world complete with a separate language and gods who alternately seduce and torment Debby; but such a world could only be shown on film by a master like Ingmar...