Word: portray
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Najarian's trial, scheduled to begin later this year, is already shaping up to be a compelling courtroom drama. Prosecutors will seek evidence of duplicity from uni-versity administrators and government officials, while the defense is expected to summon an army of patients to portray a man motivated by nothing but the Hippocratic oath. "I'd go to the ends of the earth for him,'' says Charles Fiske of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, whose 11-month-old daughter Jamie in 1982 became the world's youngest recipient of a successful liver transplant performed by Najarian. Scott Jameson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who recently...
...return to the classics? I'd be delighted to take your word for it. But the modelsyou portray make a mockery of the new styles,with their absurdly outthrust hips and bosoms...
These distracting stylizations do serve to distinguish the film from others which portray second-generation immigrant children's struggle to balance parental expectation's with their own goals. "Double Happiness" remains most successful when it stay within this genre (familiar from films like "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Wedding Banquet"). When it attempts to step outside of this boundary, the intrigue of Jade's romance loses its force to the distracting strangeness of Shum's style...
...called for Congress to have a reform bill on his desk by July 4. He said while there was much common ground between the White House and Congress, the current version of welfare reform is too weak on work and too tough on children. Clinton took special pains to portray himself and the Democrats as the party that protects children. Clinton fumbled a bit when asked to tell why he should be re-elected, saying that he'd done what he said he'd do, and that the country was moving in the right direction. Clinton also dodged a question...
Bearing this in mind, it would be inaccurate to portray Grant as someone who turned her life around. It seems that killing her mother had so little effect on her that she just continued on with her scholastic achievements unpurturbed. It is dangerous to use Grant's academic records, as many have, to suggest her moral character; plenty of intelligent people are capable of wrongdoing. The worst part is that they are usually the most cunning about their crimes. For those who defend her as having been a juvenile, I am reminded of the case...