Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both sides in the dispute have tried to portray themselves as the underdog, fighting for what's right against an evil juggernaut...
More than two years ago, President Neil L. Rudenstine took office and quickly tried to portray himself as a pleasant man with a steady hand and a decisive plan...
Twenty-five years later, The Gazette's coverage continues to portray the administration in a light less harsh than that of independent publications...
Americans who remember Ike at all tend to recall a do-little President or a mangler of sentences at press conferences. Military writers sometimes portray Ike the General as a genial and soothing Alliance board chairman at best, or at worst a glad-handing bumbler. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander was none of those. He was a driving, demanding man of terrific energy: up before dawn, to bed after midnight, chain-smoking four packs of cigarettes, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day. He was a military perfectionist, impatient with his subordinates and a peerless, lucid briefer. He had a volcanic...
...idiot to think that cultural war was a winning strategy. At the time, I also thought that Buchanan's speech was effective -- chillingly effective. (And Buchanan contends that a script of the speech was cleared in advance by several Republican officials, despite their later efforts to portray him as an unguided missile.) But it turns out we were all wrong. The voters were not interested in a cultural war. What has changed in the political landscape in the two years since Quayle's Murphy Brown speech is not a return to "family values" (as if they'd ever gone away...