Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play "Handies" a person attempts by manual manipulation to portray a familiar phrase, title, personage or situation. The more extravagantly far-fetched the conception, the better the "Handy." Observers are not expected to be able to identify the improvisation but to be ready to return an even more fantastic...
...purpose is to portray the story of the Crucifixion as related in the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapters 26 and 27. This aim it achieves without the benefit of scenery, costumes, or dramatic action...
...snapped cantering through Idaho on a spirited nag; and even Knox may affect jhodpurs to and from the office of the Chicago Daily News. Yet this sudden burst of horse-consciousness on the part of the Republican publicity men does not mean the G.O.P. is trying to portray its prophets as members of a wealthy and notedly extravagant class. The technique may be wrong but the idea is right:--"Frugal Alf" Landon, "he balanced Kansas' budget", thirty, honest, simple...
...favorite and which are now filling the Shubert Theatre to the doors. It's rather hard, after all these years, to think of Mr. Gillette without the pipe and double peaked cap which accompanied his Sherlock Holmesing, but it appears that Mr. Gillette has versatility and can ably portray characters other than the Doyle hero...
...techniques make me dislike the more this man's writings for art in such a case makes palpable half-truths and even errors a which would be recognized as such if they were stripped naked of their glittering verbiage. Here there is no painstaking conscientious attempt to discover and portray truth whenever truth is not starting or when it calls for judicious balancing of content considerations. All is black or white in such writing. Truth comes usually in a gray mantle. Whether Broun in sincere but carried away by his emotions or whether he prostitutes his talents for the world...