Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Decrying right-wing "demonization" of women, Michelman said that the "New Right" has managed to portray feminists as "confused, selfish and anti-family...[while] equality and respect remain but a distant dream...
Myth #3: Ballet has no words. How can it portray a story with no words? Ballet has not even a hint of a spoken word. But that's the coolness of it. Ballet doesn't need words. The dancers use action to elicit the story...
Walter Matthau does not have to stretch too far to accurately portray a disheveled subway dispatcher--this is vintage Matthau: New York accent, stained shirts, mussed hair and bulbous nose dipping its way into everyone's business. As we follow Matthau's attempts to thwart the hijackers, the absolutely tangled insanity of this underground city, the subway, comes...
...acts, the show's heroine, Shirley Valentine manages to portray the dreary existence of a working class English housewife and her quest to break out of the confines of her kitchen. She confides her deepest sexual secrets--namely her absence of orgasm--and travels with the audience to the Greek Isles, where she takes a lover. With humor and spunk, Shirley makes a new life for herself...
...sweetheart, Gloria, are entrancing in their vivid representation of the absurdities of love, liking and all the intermediate emotions. Chloe Leamon, however, was perhaps not an ideal choice for the part of Gloria. Leamon is entirely credible as a woman contemptuous of passion, but she fails to portray adequately Gloria's descent from feminism to femininity...