Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Third, reading these biographies shows the suffering and pain this population has endured to reach its contemporary status. To Miller's credit, the profiles are not always congratulatory, and fairly portray both the negative and the positive episodes in gay and lesbian history...
Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Alex S.Moffat had attempted in the trial to portray Walshas a man who "maliciously, intentionallydestroyed" Evers' artwork...
...time when Japan is recovering froman epic earthquakeandnerve gas attacks by terrorists, voters have decided that comedians are best suited to run the government -- or at least two major cities. In elections Sunday, Tokyo voters elected as their governor Yukio Aoshima, who donned a kimono and wig to portray "Nasty Grandma" in a popular 1960s TV show. In Osaka, comic "Knock" Yokoyama won the honor. Though both are longtime members of Paliament's upper house, they were able to capitalize on voter anger with politics-as-usual to beat major party candidates...
Each scene had to portray a different location, using a set limited to a painted floor, a projection screen and a metal table...
...gunman: socially awkward, emotionally volatile, paranoid and somewhat delusional-judging from his rambling statement to police after his arrest in December. But Salvi's lawyers will go to court in the next month and argue that he is unfit to stand trial. To bolster the argument, they intend to portray him as a mentally unstable young misfit pushed over the edge by the exhortations of radical antiabortionists. Phone numbers and literature found in Salvi's possession indicate that he knew-or knew of-the militants who believe that killing doctors is justified to save unborn babies. "When someone...