Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tends to have serious backlash effects. When people in Tehran, Managua, and elsewhere see their neighbors gunned down by government troops using American tanks and M-16s, they often view the United States as an imperialist power supporting non-democratic regimes, not at all the image we try to portray to the nations of the Third World. While in some cases the U.S. may have to provide arms as a deterrent to Soviet expansion--to the NATO countries, for example--it is a dangerous expedient to send such goods wherever dictators desire...
Private citizen Richard Nixon, trooping through Keene and Concord and Durham and Manchester with his USC Mafia, in the winter of '68, also knew what he had come for. His media barrage tried to portray a "New Nixon," matured from the days of Checkers and "last" press conferences, a wise and respected statesman well-suited to deal with a changing and complex world. But what about sex appeal? That could be a problem. Harry Treleaven, Nixon media mastermind and anti-hero of Joe McGinniss's The Selling of the President 1968, touched on this area in a memo entitled...
...movie is thousands of gay men portrayed as masochistic, mean, maniacs," Schatz said, adding that he thinks the movie industry does not find it profitable enough to portray gays as they really are. "They just want to show the sickoes," he added...
...contrast, the only warmth on London Calling comes from the Clash's idiosyncratic reggae tunes, songs of Kingston refracted by Brixton into an unruly, festive rainbow. They portray the down-and-out but proud, card cheats, gangsters and two-bit revolutionaries, using brass, piano, and organ to supplement the traditional guitar-bass-drums outfit...
...well-orchestrated political effort to internationally portray and publicize the Afghan rebels as a national liberation movement. Even without such prompting, anti-Soviet demonstrations broke out last week in Turkey, India, Sudan, Indonesia, Iran...