Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student asked why Black filmmakers tent tomake films about inner-city residents, and whythose directors rarely portray Black people whoare less "hard-core or from the street...maybeeven [from] the suburbs...
Quiet diplomacy is not always handled by colorless bureaucrats. GIANDOMENICO PICCO, the dashing U.N. envoy credited with freeing the hostages, has a certain James Bond quality that has Hollywood panting. Already considering book offers, Picco is now being courted by movie studios eager to portray the glamorous negotiator at work...
...lure more caring individuals to the field, schools are seeking older students as well as non-science majors. Reformers are also revising the curriculum to place more emphasis on how to relate to patients. Some schools have engaged actors to portray patients -- some of them ornery or withdrawn -- whom students must then interview and counsel. At Duke University's medical school in North Carolina, Melanie Wellington had a tough time with "Tom Brown," a black man in his 50s, whose dietary habits were contributing to high blood pressure. "Brown" said he didn't want to be treated with drugs because...
Primus's late night encounter with one individual has nothing to do with SAS's position in regard to any issue. We resent the attempt to portray our organization as an uninformed, non-peace-seeking group...
...really don't think that theater can portray reality very well any more," adds Aron. "People can't suspend disbelief. I like to push that and make it more melodramatic and cartoony and big. That's something you can do in theater more than in film...