Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this case, the State Department was responsible for ghost-writing editorials and misleading journalists in an overall effort to portray the contras as the "genuine voice of the people of Nicaragua." By sullying itself in this operation, the State Department did more than circumvent the law; it undermined its credibility...
...life, Sid and Nancy, including a fantasy sequence that Cox could sue him for if scenes were copyrighted. He needn't bother, however, since Lowenstein never even approaches the level of intelligence and cohesiveness that made Cox's movie so compelling. Lowenstein doesn't understand that the way to portray chaos and boredom is not to be chaotic and boring...
...that Campaign Manager John Sasso phoned Dukakis in Iowa Sept. 27 to warn him that a story in the forthcoming edition of TIME identified the Dukakis campaign as the source of the video. Dukakis somewhat cryptically told Sasso to "check out" the story. But the Governor, who likes to portray himself as a hands-on manager who pays close attention to detail, overlooked one rather salient question. By his own account, he never asked Sasso if the story was true...
...field of candidates, the most he has seen during his four years on the council, stems from this change in direction. He attributed the organization's "growing popularity" to last year's campus-wide events such as the Elvis Costello concert and the Memorial Hall keg party "which helped portray the council in a very favorable light...
...news feature, "Razo Case Raises Wide Questions," Jeffrey S. Nordhaus drew on several long conversations with me and others in an effort to portray more general "Minority Plight." As I remarked to him, I was seeking to disaggregate and "complexify" the story, which was inevitably getting too long for daily jounalism. Mr. Nordhaus wrote with care and sympathy. But he reverses the races in one episode I told him. I was seeking to illustrate the ways a Black table in a House may form, and the difficulty white students or even Tutors would have in going to sit down...