Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doesn't anyone have a kind word for Wall Street's gilded '80s? The new decade is only six weeks old, and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess. The melodramatic titles depict the American free-enterprise system as overrun by barbarians and liars, ambition and greed. And readers are lapping it all up. Just as they reveled in stories of the rich and famous during the past decade, today's inquiring minds are hungry for colorful tales about the pratfalls of the mighty...
Editorials, it seems, are the violence we do to words. Fabricating an argument, we pick apart and invert language on itself; and we portray it, politically, to our advantage in the ethical warfare for public opinion...