Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bok likes to portray divestiture as an impractical gesture, favored only by college students and other romantics. Yet the legislature's move is practical as well as symbolic. It serves notice to Pretoria that apartheid must go. And it encourages more than 30 American firms to reconsider both the moral and financial wisdom of maintaining businesses in South Africa. If the Bay State's action reveals a romantic outlook, it is a romanticism that the University would be wise to adopt...
According to program notes, the intent of the script (which covers the last week of Jesus lite but ends before the Resurrection) is to portray a "human Jesus," and, by neither revering nor blaspheming, to explore the problems the Christ stars poses for modern youth. In performance, though, while the company takes some stabs in that direction emphasizing the sensual in Jesus's relationship with Mary Magdalen, for instance, and painting a startlingly sympathetic Judas-- they prove unable to maintain an even enough tone for such analysis Jesus's followers come across as suitably starry-eyed, dutifully and competently executing...
Finished with everyone his size, he is ready to try Bruce Jenner again, to act in movies, perhaps portray Henry Armstrong, the legendary champion of three weight divisions (whose record Alexis Arguello could not break last week against Aaron Pryor). "Boxers in the past have been known to be ugly," Ali told Leonard. "But we're pretty. You and I can't take credit, though. It started with Sugar Ray Robinson. He was a pretty man before us. Pretty...
...doctor's Jewish identity seems to be the source of his problems and his effect on everyone: Morreau's simplistic attempt to portray the resulting tensions fails because her images are too stereotypically flat. More of a presence than a character, the doctor's black suit and ever present dark car too heavily suggest his mysterious nature...
...McDaniel, a Vietnam War veteran who attempted to portray incumbent Charles Whitley as an unrepentant fool of the Democratic leadership...