Word: portray
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Meanwhile, Leach, deprived by the autocratic Gonzalez of one forum, avidly seized another. In a speech on the House floor on Thursday afternoon, he pursued two lines of accusations, delivered in a theatrical combination of harsh language and calm tone. One line was to portray Whitewater as a kind of sweetheart deal -- one to which "the Governor-in-the-making provided his name" while "the S&L owner ((McDougal)) and affiliated entities provided virtually all, perhaps all, the money." The company "may have begun as a legitimate real estate venture," Leach intoned, "but it came to be used to skim...
Other modern revisions of Christ's death portray the Nazarene as a martyred revolutionary a la Che Guevara, but Brown says the details do not fit that scenario, and besides, Jewish insurrections only arose a generation later...
Take health care. The Clintons did not just offer their plan as a needed reform of an old and inefficient system. They had to portray the existing system as the workings of "price gouging, cost shifting" and "profiteering" bogeymen -- the greedy insurers, drug makers and doctors from whose malevolent grasp the Clintons and their bureaucrats would free...
...MacDowell seems to have evolved little since her days as a L'Oreal-model-turned-actress. While she is as stunning as ever, she remains trapped in the mold of a silent, sullen object of beauty. Her sophisticated sadness worked well in movies where she was only meant to portray a beautiful object, ("The Legend of Greystoke," "St. Elmo's Fire," The Object of Beauty"). In "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" she won acclaim for her portrayal of an emotionally repressed Southern housewife, but "Four Weddings and a Funeral," a light comedy, is an altogether differnt movie which demands a different...
Much as I like keeping up with the state of affairs in Russia, I think we've seen enough of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in his underwear ((CHRONICLES, Feb. 28)). I realize TIME is trying to portray him as a buffoon, but he is a threat to world peace and should be treated more seriously...