Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE ARE A FEW SCENES in which the lines don't detract from the emotions the actors portray. As they flicker by. Thomas succeeds in delineating his pain. When he gets out of a shower, shivering and wet. he reaches out to an empty towel rack and he calls out "Mom, I need a towel" It is the fleeting moments like this that give the film its most potent and forceful moments. Unfortunately Schatzberg's attempt to create a collage of scenes in which Andrew and his father struggle with their loss is frequently uneven and ultimately unsatisfying...
...taste," the authors of the editorial, and others who feel similarly, fail entirely to understand the scope of the problem It is no "bad taste" to degrade other people, nor is it "bad taste" to encourage vilent conquest as heterosexual intercourse In racist literature it is standard to portray the persecuted as bestial or subhuman to Nazis, Jews were "vermin," to the KKK Blacks are "apes." Such calculated dehumanization is essential to carrying out violence without guilty conscience. The Pi's references to women as "pigs" and "slobbering bovines" are not even remotely humorous, nor just in "bad taste"--they...
...ought to consider pornography (such as the Pi Eta letter) as a question of competing rights to free speech. We must weigh the rights of the pornographers against the rights of women who are silenced by pornography--who must live in fear of the sexual violence which pornographers portray as erotic and enjoyable...
...Hart claims he was calling for an American withdrawal from Lebanon, he actually voted to extend their mission for another six months. By feeding these examples to the press, Mondale aides hope to depict Hart as a feckless McGovernite who has learned the "wrong lesson" from Viet Nam. Aides portray Mondale, by contrast, as a steady hand who knows what it is like to have the nuclear-weapons-code briefcase at the ready. A Mondale ad shows a red phone ringing in the night and asks the voters who should answer...
...missteps intensified the aura of ethical laxity that has clung to the Reagan Administration from its earliest days. The cumulative impact of questionable dealings and pressured resignations by Reagan appointees has not seemed to hurt the President. But as the November election approaches, the Democrats are certain to portray Reagan as unduly tolerant of misfeasance by his underlings...