Word: portray
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This election season, the Dole campaign is depicting the presidential race as a battle between a Republican hedgehog and a Democratic fox. Republicans portray their candidate as a homespun political hedgehog, a man with a simple, overarching view of America, while representing Bill Clinton as a sharp-eyed political fox, a candidate who has, as Bob Dole says, "a million little plans." Dole repeatedly contrasts his "one big plan" with Clinton's "inch-by-inch" approach. The subtext of Dole's message, beginning with his Senate resignation speech, in which he described himself as "just a man," is that...
...members, three of whom are female. The group holds semesterly auditions. New members ideally exhibit such qualities as the ability to portray characters and the possession of a sense of humor, Goor says...
HUCTW leaders did not portray the results of the decision-making apparatus in the same positive light...
When the House of Representatives voted last week to overturn President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion, some opponents saw more politics than principle behind the gesture. How better to portray Clinton as an extremist than by reminding voters that he had defended a practice that big majorities find repugnant? What better gift to give Bob Dole, as he searches for the wedge issues that might give him traction with the conservative and Roman Catholic voters who should form the base of his support...
...ultimate re-election--the deficit-reduction measures that gained the infant Administration credibility with the financial markets, which in turn helped the economy purr along. But his attempt to reform the nation's health-care system had split the country and overshadowed everything else, allowing the G.O.P. to portray him successfully as classically liberal and thereby capture Congress...