Word: portrayal
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...have employed artful compressions, alluding to past events, when necessary, through a vivid present. Sometimes their titles make this focus clear: A Month of Sundays, Memories of the Ford Administration (which lasted, for those who missed or have forgotten it, about 30 months). Even the tetralogy of books that portray Rabbit Angstrom concentrates on spasms of activity set at 10-year intervals of his life. It is therefore surprising to learn that In the Beauty of the Lilies (Knopf; 491 pages; $25.95) covers a whopping 80 years and four generations of a single American family. In his mid-60s, Updike...
...feel that the presentation of your article was irresponsible and sensationalist. Your presumed effort to make the story more eye-catching tarnished what may be respectable and careful research. Please make an effort to portray the results of scientific studies more genuinely in the future. And, if you print this letter, please don't give it the headline, "Biochemistry Student Argues That Ketchup Is Actually Bad For You." --Kevin Martin...
GOOD HAIR DAY: As a prelude to his resignation under fire for sexual harassment and favor seeking, Senator Bob Packwood's diaries were published. They portray a man consumed by fund raising and swayed by lobbyists. The nation also learned that by combing his hair without gel, Packwood got "just the right amount of wave and bounce...
Dyson is not afraid to go against the grain. He defends Martin Luther King against revisionists who would portray him as a "sell-out" compared with the more militant--and currently more fashionable--Malcolm X. Dyson argues that those who (rightly) lionize Malcolm should re-examine the radical final stage of King's life, in which he sought to unify "poor blacks, whites, Latinos and native Americans in a multiracial coalition ... to challenge the unfair distribution of wealth." Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What...
They have attacked Republican cutbacks in student aid, welfare and Medicaid among others. In every case, the Democratic party has tried to portray the Republican cutbacks needed to balance the budget as disastrous for the individual special interest group that will be affected. Never once have they stopped to consider the vast benefits to America that a balanced budget will produce. While President Clinton has produced a plan that will supposedly balance the budget by 2002, the Congressional Budget Office determined that his plan would fall more than $300 billion short over the next seven years. Even...