Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this welter of charge and countercharge, Hart can no longer portray himself as financial underdog to the lavishly funded Mondale. Quite the contrary; it is Mondale who is now being forced into some unaccustomed penny-pinching. Hoping to lock up the nomination early, Mondale spent heavily on the early contests; by the end of March his outlays will total about $12.5 million, and federal law permits him to use only $7.7 million more before the convention. Finance Chairman Timothy Finchem insists that will be enough to stage an effective drive through the late primaries and caucuses, but in Mondale...
...public's right to know outweighs the intrusive and potentially disruptive impact of television coverage on a court proceeding and its principal participants. The problem may be particularly delicate in rape cases, because the victim is often stigmatized, both by the assault and by defense strategies that portray her as a ready partner. Says Stephanie Roth of New York Women Against Rape: "Going through a rape trial can be like going through a rape again.'' Many attorneys and social activists claim that the intense national focus on the New Bedford trial has discouraged women from pursuing rape...
...that might stigmatize their party as antireligious, stood aside and let the speakers orate on a matter that technically was not up for consideration. "God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat," said Majority Leader James Wright of Texas. "It is wholly inappropriate for either party to attempt to portray the other as being opposed to prayer...
...inscribed its goal above its gates: veritas. The only proven means to this end lies in the tradition of academic freedom. In a letter appearing in The Crimson; March 7, Nineteen Eighty-four, Mr. Mark Lagon of the Harvard Republican club argues that the tradition has broken down. He portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends that professors adopt...
...Robby Benson's lack of one. Newman may be pushing 60 in chronological fact but he looks as if he is barely pushing 50' And while it's inspiring to see his famous piercing gaze undimmed by the passing years, his vigor vitiates his attempt to portray a man to whom death has dropped a broad hint, just as it undermined his try at alcoholic despair in The Verdict & year ago He does his best to hide his glow, but the effort makes him seem absentminded...