Word: portray
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those participating in the debate over Ignatiev's appointment draw a Jekyll and Hyde character sketch. His supporters describe him as an active, thoughtful tutor and accuse the Liems of thought control. Other students portray Ignatiev as a destructive force Dunster would be better without...
Both Shattuck and Costa said theGood MorningAmericabroadcast was an experiment of sorts,to see whether television could portray thecomplex issues of higher education...
...Loyola Law School. "The defense came out swinging from the first, painting King as a bad and dangerous man." On the order of Judge Weisberg, defense attorneys were not permitted to tell the jury about King's criminal record, including his imprisonment for robbery. But they were able to portray King as a large, aggressive man who was legally drunk. Much was made of the officers' claim that they thought King had gained unusual strength and tolerance to pain because, they believed, he was under the influence of angel dust -- the hallucinogenic drug pcp. Subsequent tests showed no trace...
...Peruvian leaders as being cartoon characters. I hardly believe that Javier Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of teh United Nations) and writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who will shortly be a visiting professor at Harvard), both current leaders in Peruvian society, fit stereotypes that the author is trying the portray...
Thunderheart, with no obligation to sift through the intricate facts of a complicated case, has more time than the documentary to portray the shameful living conditions at Pine Ridge and to suggest the power of the mystical traditions AIM sought to revive. Its protagonist, an FBI agent named Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), is assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief...