Word: portray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memories of great days for the Red Sox and great days for baseball, both of which people are afraid to admit may be waning. And Lynn himself, and all-American nothing-too-flashy, cocky but thrilled-to-be here folks golden boy for so the press likes to portray), does little to deter these flights of fancy. Hell, he's an old-fashioned talent, graceful as a gazelle, and when he swings the bat your heart leaps out of your chest. Thank God he's white...
...whole thing is an elaborate fantasy produced and paid for by Multimillionaire Artist Bob Graham, who acts on the conviction that all the world's a stage. Big Jim, Boo Boo and the rest of the Doo Dah gang are actors getting paid $450 a week to portray gangland characters from the Roaring Twenties, primarily for the entertainment of Patron Graham-and anyone else who happens by. So far, this strange amusement has cost Graham some $600,000, with no end in sight...
...cast of players who portray a sizeable sample of the 2642 inhabitants of Grover's Corners touchingly and devotedly serve the script that Wilder said was "an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life." The characters all talk pretty much the same way, but Wilder could not have fashioned their colloquial speech without a keen ear and much hard work...
Halstead's assignment was to try to "portray the real girls journalistically, not stylistically." In his quest for the genuine, he sometimes found unusual props or received unexpected help. Spanish Heiress Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera blossomed while swinging from-of all things-a block and tackle used to hoist bulls into her father's ring for a corrida. Actress Tessa Dahl's radiant smile came while shooting in London's Hyde Park, when Tessa looked past Dirck and saw a dog in the act of mistaking his camera bag for a fireplug...
...never resort to such terms myself. I am, in fact, consistently sympathetic to the Chinese throughout. It is only the media I portray as going overboard. Allen Drury San Rafael, Calif...