Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republicans regard the Carter-Mondale tactic as dirty politics. But Reagan professes no unease and refuses to make a point-by-point rebuttal to the attempt "to portray me as a combination of Ebenezer Scrooge and the mad bomber." Instead, says Reagan, he will concentrate on attacking Carter's record as President...
...voice. Perhaps this comes from my radio days. After that I establish how the character walks. And then suddenly something strange happens. The person takes over. I stare at my own image in the mirror waiting for the other fellow, the man I'm going to portray, to emerge-to stare back at me. And then it happens. I have the feeling that the film character enters my body as if I were a kind of medium. It's a little frightening...
Mayor Young and most of Detroit's citizens were deservedly pleased with their city's performance. Said Young: "Our objectives have been realized. We felt the convention would give us a chance to portray Detroit in a new light, rather than as a crime-ridden, no-hope city." A good many delegates would be willing to return. "We're booked to leave the first thing tomorrow," lamented Nevada Alternate Delegate Mahlon Faust as the convention ended. "We didn't think Detroit would be this interesting...
...Rather, as she observes, "it's a strange sensation to play myself." Sophia is less flustered by her other part in Sophia, a TV movie based on A.E. Hotchner's 1979 biography. Indeed, she needs little more than a blond wig and her own vivid memories to portray her stunning mother, Romilda Villani, now 64. "My mother is everything," says the adoring daughter. "She is beautiful, instinctive and with the craziness of the artist in her, something I've had to control in myself." Sophia plays Mama to Letizia d'Adderio, 9, and two other young...
Spacek, that marvelously lithe, tiny creature from the innards of Texas, manages to portray Carolyn Cassady with a gleaming, wry smile and a gentle Southern voice that can say things like "Something had ended--they used to call it innocence," and almost get away with...