Word: portray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...review of my novel Do with Me What You Will [Oct. 15], Martha Duffy states categorically that I portray marriage as damaging to women, causing their breakdowns. This is absolutely untrue. Some marriages are stifling, and thwart the individual's natural growth; but there are other marriages, healthy marriages, that allow both individuals their fulfillment. I am most upset that so perverse a belief should be attributed to me, since I have been married for 13 years. There is enough vicious, absurd anti-male and antimarriage propaganda in America today without Mrs. Duffy's deliberate distortion...
...effort to make the diplomatic atmosphere as clear as possible, the Soviets kept their rhetoric purposely mild. Soviet publications made no effort to inflame domestic opinion against either Israel or the U.S. They did not portray the Israelis as having started the new war (the Arabs do) and did not criticize the U.S. airlift. Brezhnev declared that the fighting ought to be stopped quickly, that the U.S.S.R. would try to help bring that about, and that his nation recognizes Israel's right of existence as an independent state...
...never told why Hart wants so much to succeed, since Bridges does not portray the origin or meaning of his ambition. His last, too easy gesture of mocking his achievement thus looks not only frivolous and empty-headed but contemptuous. It means that the students brought themselves to the edge of hysteria for nothing, that one tried to kill himself for nothing, that we were manipulated into caring about it all for nothing...
...Chinese bombarded him with warnings against becoming complacent about Soviet armed might, implicitly supporting France's atomic force. Equally close attention has been paid to rallying support in the developing world. At the conference of non-aligned nations in Algiers, the Chinese went to great lengths to portray the Soviet Union as a "dangerous friend." While the diplomatic battle rages on, the most immediate danger still lies along their common 4,000-mile border. The military face-off on the desolate frontier pits the two largest land armies in the world against each other, the more potent of them...
Backstage at the New York City Opera last week, Head Costumer J. Edgar Joseph had a problem. Would the off-white silk nightgown take to the rose dye? If not, Diva Beverly Sills would have to portray the heroine of Donizetti's Anna Bolena 30 hours later in a hand-me-down from Massenet's Manon. The dilemma was only one of several dozen facing Joseph at the time. Suddenly he rose from his chair, walked to a big dressing mirror and began screaming at himself. "What's the use of yelling at someone else?" he said...