Word: portray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theresa leaves her Bronx home to attend City College, where she becomes entangled with a sadistic, egotistical, boorish college professor and willingly loses her virginity. The professor is the only man in Looking for Mr. Goodbar that Rossner is able to portray convincingly. No longer young, he is interested in reaffirming his youth buy seducing the female students in his classes--or, rather, enticing them to seduce him--while at the same time constantly condescending to them to maintain his power and stature in their eyes as well as in his own. To Theresa's perpetual fears of bodily imperfection...
...purpose might be, whether to expose them as muddling bureaucrats or as efficient social workers concerned about their clients, the footage would try to be clean of any hints that the observed were aware of the observers. Documentary, after all, attempts to show glimpses of the truth, to portray people as they...
...going to make it impossible for the Senate to declare a winner, and even the Democrats, who badly wanted their party to gain the seat vacated by Republican hardliner Norris Cotton, began calling for a new election, Durkin refused to change his position. So Wyman was able to portray himself as the champion of letting the electorate make the choice, with Durkin appearing anxious to take the decision away from the people of New Hampshire. And when the inevitable happened, and the Senate finally decided to call for a special election, Durkin's original image as the spokesman...
...newspapers that print her pictures of the group credit them to her. Since Manson's trial and imprisonment, a Manson cult of sorts has sprung up, making instant myth of his life of violence. A play by David Rabe, The Orphan, tried, with notable lack of success, to portray Manson as misunderstood victim, oracle and messiah. Author Norman Mailer, although acknowledging that brave people can have destructive qualities, has said of Manson: "As an intellectual, he was brave...
...like Hope and Crosby, like Laurel and Hardy. They have just the right chemistry," says Director Mark Rydell of his current stars, James Caan and Elliott Gould. On location in Mansfield, Ohio, for the filming of a comedy titled Harry and Walter Go to New York, the pair portray 1890s vaudevillians who end up in prison with an urbane safecracker, played by Michael Caine. Caan and Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues of Ohio State...