Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emil Schulthess, an internationally renowned photographer, has produced a remarkable book of aerial views that portray his native country in all its contradictory beauty. For Swiss Panorama (Knopf; $50) he used a specially designed remote-control camera suspended from a helicopter to make color pictures that are almost three-dimensional in effect. The pictures, some shot from above 20,000 ft., are breathtaking in clarity and detail; in a shot of the legendary Piz Palü, fresh marks of alpinists' climbing irons are clearly visible. Swiss Panorama ranges from cloud-topped peaks and neatly patterned farmland to well-preserved...
...sports reporter for Newsday, the Long Island, N.Y. newspaper and one of the nation's largest dailies, Jackson says he wants to portray the athletes he covers as people, not just the makers of scores and statistics...
...officials believe the Soviets could even return to the nuclear bargaining table within a few months. Moscow has a military interest in curtailing the NATO deployment, which is sched uled to proceed gradually over the next five years. There is also the importance to the Soviets of continuing to portray themselves as peacemakers in their ongoing bid to split the NATO allies...
...superpower showdown. Former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, 69, is cast as the U.S. President. (Muskie will have to watch the program from a hospital bed; he suffered a heart attack at his home in Maine last week.) Former Defense Secretaries James Schlesinger, 54, and Clark Clifford, 76, portray the Secretaries of Defense and State respectively. The result, says former Assistant Secretary of State Hodding Carter III, who plays a senior adviser on the program, "will be as close to reality as anything but real events themselves." For most viewers, that should be plenty close enough...
...with good reason. Last week P&G launched Citrus Hill, its entry into the $3 billion market for chilled and frozen orange juice. "There's a year of sunshine in every sip," goes the slogan for the ads that blossomed on TV and in newspapers. The commercials portray a citrus grower who says, "That is one sunshiny, sweet-tastin' orange juice." Cost of the national blitz: an estimated $100 million...