Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your story about the shootout in Memphis [Jan. 31] raises serious questions about our society's attitudes toward criminals. Maxine Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis N.A.A.C.P., and Walter Bailey, Shelby County commissioner, wrongly portray the police as the criminals. Officer Robert Hester, who was tortured and murdered, was the victim. His fellow officers, who were forced to stand by and listen to Hester's screams and pleas for mercy, were also victims. Lindberg Sanders and his cult followers are the criminals...
...original Sting was remarkable because it combined the most unlikely twists of plot with entirely plausible characters. At the close of the movie, when the Robert Redford and Paul Newman characters turn out only to be feigning death, the twist is a shock because those actors portray such genuine. killable men. The viewer believes he is watching real-world scenes in which such a tragedy could occur. The movie itself is a con game, the audience its victims, and everyone falls...
Watt apparently wanted to portray environmentalists as subversive extremists so that his own rapacious policies would seem moderate by comparison. A Harris survey in the same issue of Business Week, however, showed that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter environmental regulations, despite their costs. The simple truth is that Watt himself is the extremist, concern for the environment has earned a firm position within the mainstream of American political opinion. By contrast. What's own recent shenanigans in Washington--such as revoking "protected" status for thousands of acres of land in the Midwest while Congress was in recess--betray a dangerous distregard...
...tied your hands with regard to attaining anything." The trouble with the answer, however, was that Reagan's rival in the Kremlin has been talking quite openly about negotiating positions-and tying Reagan up in knots. Preposterous as it seems to Americans, Andropov is managing to portray the Soviet Union as the superpower most concerned about controlling nuclear weapons...
...spoke that drew his constituency and gave his leadership power and influence among the more militant Blacks and those who were members of store-front Negro churches and isolated political organizations. Malcolm X, seeing Black history as a record of conflict between the races, used a dramatic language to portray a battle in order to get the Blacks to be aware of their grave situation. He thought their very lives were in danger...