Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides dismissing such claims as "garbage," Wilson supporters have gotten some mileage out of Hatch's perceived coldness and aloofness, while trying to portray Wilson as a warm and trusting person. The implications, though, do not appear to take the mayor far enough to overtake the incumbent's popularity at home. Though his own communications director concedes that Hatch is not "warm and fuzzy," the Republican is the favorite going...
...wonder, then, that writers have taken such pains to portray the power of certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely...
ONLY TWO CANDIDATES sought to portray themselves as more than managers observed with issues of organization. Not surprisingly the two--former Gay Student Association officials J. French Wall '83 and Michael G. Colantuono '83--were the only candidates with significant experience in campus minority organizations, perhaps explaining why they alone stressed the need for quick, visible achievements by the nascent body...
Burt Young also manages to everyone the limits of the script to portray Jerry as a sensitive, almost childlike, individual, not merely the bumbling sidekick of the fast-talking Alex. As Patti, however, Ann-Margaret is listless; she seems to have given up on trying to inject any energy into here role. Of course, the script never gives her a chance: Patti's character is merely a contrivance of the plot--an extra ingredient thrown into the stew to provide an attractive diversion from the rather bland main course...
...realistic fiction looks both daring and inspired. At the beginning of his career, the prevailing wisdom held that Joyce, Proust and Kafka had made the old-fashioned novel redundant, a tired illusion that had been exposed once and for all as a sham. Literature should no longer pretend to portray people doing things: it ought to be an artful arrangement of words on a page. Critic Richard Oilman, typically, called narrative "that element of fiction which coerces and degrades it into being a mere alternative to life." Updike's novels and stories went right on, stubbornly offering swatches...