Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deceptively dry-looking report, written by a Manhattan law firm and titled Investigation into Sales of Propeller Milling Machines to the Soviet Union by Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. But its 45 off-white pages portray an industrial intrigue complete with disguised machine tools, secretive meetings, stifled whistle blowers and burned records. The probe, which was commissioned by Tokyo's Toshiba Corp. and released last week, describes for the first time in detail the conspiracy behind the covert sales made to the Soviet Union by Toshiba's subsidiary, Toshiba Machine. It was a crime that the Pentagon claims has helped Soviet...
Although some right-wing groups have hailed Bork as a kindred conservative who will shift the court to their liking, Reagan has gone out of his way to portray Bork as a moderate in the Powell mold. The White House has distributed to key Senators a briefing book that outlines many of Bork's rulings and proclaims that his appointment to the court "will not alter the balance...
...Globe Reporter Ben Bradlee Jr. The deal is only in the exploratory stage, but Hollywood gossip mills already tab Treat Williams as a natural for the part of the hound-dog-eyed Marine. Some would-be casting agents, however, favor Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford. And who better to portray the portly former National Security Adviser John Poindexter than Edward Asner? On the basis of hairstyle alone, Farrah Fawcett is a shoo-in for the part of Ollie's secretary, Fawn Hall. Unless, of course, she beats out Rice Look-Alike Cheryl Ladd for the lead in Donna's story...
When Ollie North took the stand on Tuesday, Reagan walked resolutely through a busy schedule, trying to portray himself as a man with more important work. But in the back corridors of the White House, the sound from the televised hearings leaked out from behind a door or two. Two aides of White House Counsel A.B. Culvahouse monitored every second of the Iran-contra drama; another White House lawyer posted himself in the hearing room to catch the off-camera subtleties and interplay. The Communications Office got it all on tape should Reagan want to take a full look later...
...voice that rumbles out of a burly figure topped off by a scraggly helmet of gray hair and an untidy beard, Bork commands attention by sound and sight. After 34 years as lawyer, professor, author and judge, this bear of a man has a professional reputation that tends to portray him as straitlaced, rigid, predictable. But there are a few twists. The predictable conservative venerated Socialist Eugene V. Debs as his boyhood hero, and his vote for President in 1952 was for that saint of the liberals, Adlai Stevenson. The man who was raised a Protestant...