Word: portray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was an offensive attempt to portray the Democratic campaigners?and indeed all U.S. politicians?as being guilty of the same kind of improper and criminal activity as that of his adherents. No "mob violence" was evident when the Watergate bugging was planned or carried out, nor was there much reason to expect any as a result of Democratic tactics; even if there had been such an expectation, it would hardly have justified the Watergate or related enterprises. While there obviously is plenty of political corruption on all sides, there is no evidence that Democrats?or other Republicans?burglarized offices...
...Costa-Gavras is not so simple as to portray the Tupamaros as perfect angels. They are dedicated and professional revolutionaries. The interrogator Hugo (played with proper understatement by Jacques Weber, a newcomer to film) is absolutely ruthless in his refusal to countenance the lies Santore feeds him about the nature of Santore's work in Uruguay. Whenever Santore makes an allegation, the Tupamaro's information is so good that he is forced to assent by silence. Hugo shows him a photograph of two Brazilian police officials accused of torture. Santore denies he knows them. He is shown two more -- again...
...most telling basis for doubt remains--in the attitude of the Corporation. Although businesses have probably spent millions on mass media advertising designed to portray corporations as socially responsible, the Corporation, in voting for the Caterpillar disclosure, did not want to ask Caterpillar to go to the trouble or expense of sending the disclosure automatically to all stockholders...
...peculiarity of the novel is that Casey's character becomes progressively less vivid and distinct as the narration advances, until by the last page he has totally disappeared from view. This is no accident, and, in fact, Sheed may have hit on the perfect literary device to portray the evolution of that strange political subspecies-public illusionists, private delusionists-whose members become candidates for the U.S. presidency...
MOST IMPORTANT is their isolation from each other. Duff's words hold the supreme irony: "We're together, that's what matters." In Landscape we watch Pinter portray the inability of humans to communicate with each other, not in a play with "whole" characters possessing relatively clear motives who at least talk to each other--as in Night School--but in two monologues, delivered by people whose past is for us largely an inseparable mixture of fact and fantasy, and whose motives are unknown...