Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cagney's pugnacious, straight-from-the-shoulder style and his genuine modesty ("I was always a journeyman actor," he once said) belied both his professionalism and his artistic versatility. He could portray protean Actor Lon Chaney in the film biography Man of a Thousand Faces as easily as the irascible ship's captain in Mister Roberts. His performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett...
...thing, the Contras do not merely "advocate" murder; they practice it. It is disingenuous to portray this incident solely as a free speech issue. There is nothing wrong with open debate. But, unfortunately, the world is not a Gov section. While we calmly debate the merits of various opinions, Nicaraguans are today being killed--this is not some abstract concept nor merely my personal opinion, but documented reality...
...locker rooms of also-ran athletes. These characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph is to portray, through one family's delusions, the lingering poison of war and betrayal among generations who outwardly appear to have escaped...
...truth--and this movie stretches that notion to its breaking point--is not necessarily an excuse for movie-making. A tough movie about a destructive relationship is potentially good fodder for Hollywood, especially now that film-makers are given unprecedented freedom to portray life and love in all its carnal beauty and horror...
Speaking at the Center for International Affairs, Alejandro Martinez, Nicaragua's Minister of Foreign Trade, took issue with Reagan's attempt to portray Nicaragua as a Soviet pawn. Martinez said that the Nicaraguan government has only sought help from the Soviet Union when it felt that "the U.S. was trying to kill...