Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than disgust about the incident. She takes a similar tone when dealing with J.F.K. the philanderer. His compulsive womanizing, says Goodwin, was a symptom of his dread of intimacy and his fear of early death. He suffered from Addison's disease. But previous accounts of Kennedy hanky-panky portray an insensitive Regency buck claiming sexual entitlements...
...works seem more fluent because they represent the influence of past art on present artists by--within their plays--showing films of what influences them to write. The others expose their own arts and become all too obvious as they write about the process of writing. Llosa and Skarmeta portray writers-at-work who pace back and forth creating poetry and writing and erasing the multiple climaxes of a trash novel...
...shocking that the chief intelligence officer of the U.S. Government seems to know less about this affair than the average American who reads the daily press," declared Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York. Contended Connecticut Democrat Samuel Gejdenson: "If Casey really knows as little as he tried to portray, he ought to be fired for incompetence. And if he knew more, he ought to be fired because the President instructed his people to be forthcoming." Casey had replied "I don't know" to so many questions that the answer began drawing laughter from some committee members. Said Pennsylvania Democrat...
...same is true of advertising. If protest is mounted, advertisers will recognize that it is not good business to portray women in a degrading fashion. With a little luck, they may start to develop attitudes that would prevent them from doing so in the first place...
...rest of the cast, a dauntless ensemble, portray for the most part the unfortunates of the future who suffer Lantry's murderous libido. They also suffer Bradbury's murderous writing, having to deliver such lines as "Law? The terms you are using no longer exist." Several improvised scenes, particularly a discussion about the digestibility of spaghetti, are genuinely funny; others miss the mark. On the whole, though, the comic breaks serve as welcome oases in a sea of burdensome sci-fi philosophizing...