Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Bush and Quayle were both stumping too, their efforts to portray the Clinton-Gore team as liberals in moderate clothing were constantly deflected by questions about their own prospects and record in office. In a week when Bush faced hecklers at a gathering of POW and MIA families, quayle gritted his teeth and denied that he was on the brink of being dropped from the team. When he turned up on CNN'S Larry King Live to repeat that line, however, he seemed to provide his own escape clause. "Believe me, if I thought that I was hurting...
...brainstorm occurred while he was having dinner at a sushi bar in Nashua, N.H. Bentley was part of the press corps covering the state's first-in-the-nation primary, and he was trying to devise a more personal approach to the campaign. Then it hit him: Why not portray a run for the presidency from the inside looking out? A few days later, P.F. told associate picture editor Rick Boeth that he'd like to hook up with the Clinton campaign, a risky choice because the Arkansas Governor's candidacy was in deep trouble at the time...
...other essays in Black Looks which address topics such as Black filmmakers and the historical relationship between Blacks and Native Americans, are distinguished by this uncompromising critical attitude and hooks' accessible and personal, voice. These essays are an indignant, passionate demand that the bounds of representation be expanded to portray members of all groups as complex human beings. As she says in her dedication Black Looks is a challenge to "live theory in a place beyond words...
Martinez, like the other contributors to this book, has attempted to portray the reality of the city that exists among the myths, and the interplay between the two. These writers' introduction to the city is suitably complex: sometimes affectionate, sometimes critical, Sex, Death and God in L.A. is absorbing and insightful throughout...
...dredge up my first-year memories of other people's miseries and failures. Like the best reality-based television show, I too can exploit the pain of my fellow students--portray their suffering in chilling accuracy and technicolor...