Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several cameo appearances pepper the film--Chris Farley (an SNL regular) plays a security guard, Ed O'Neill (Married...With Children) is an eccentric owner of the cafe where Wayne and Garth hang out, and Alice Cooper plays himself (what else could he portray...
...Jose M. Ferrer III, assistant managing editor of TIME's International editions, will be the first of four special sections on the competition. "There's a magical quality to the Winter Games, a sense that they retain the original Olympic ideal," says Ferrer. "Our job will be to portray the human stories behind the global Games...
...America is spoiling for a fight and, with the Soviet Union on the dustheap of history, Japan is the only serious adversary around. But the spate of Japan baiting mostly follows Teddy Roosevelt's maxim in reverse: loud talk and little stick. No presidential contender is reckless enough to portray Japan as the Evil Economy. America's congenital optimism may be cowering in the corner, but the candidates -- and most voters -- recognize that the roots of the nation's problems lie within the 50 states. Still, in the sound-bite derby for the White House, Japan's affluence and economic...
...doubt the sponsoring organizations will try to portray the massive demonstrations planned as racist and anti-Black. But this self-serving interpretation should be rejected by the Harvard community...
...months before Gary Hart challenged the moralistic conventions of political behavior and paid the price for his apostasy, he wrote a mini- autobiography designed, apparently, to portray himself as normal. The last paragraph read: "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with.' As usual," Hart concluded, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Thus, in his own words, the fallen candidate's political epitaph: Gary Hart -- fool...