Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...startlingly disingenuous coming from an establishment candidate, especially as his proposed ban on soft money would place few limits on the contributions of wealthy individuals. Bush's website now spouts the phrase "reformer with results" so many times that it occasionally forgets to include verbs in its zeal to portray Bush as an outsider: "Of the major candidates, the only one who does not have a D.C. ZIP code." (Perhaps this technique is, in some way, a subtle reflection of the candidate...
...before he could get his pudding pot, Crystal had to lasso a blond "cow" with prominent udders onto the ground and portray how Robert De Niro might help a cow give birth...
...repudiation of Mugabe and his president-for-life ambitions marked a maturation of Zimbabwe's democracy. The president had based his campaign on racial demagoguery, trying to portray a "no" vote as an endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut...
...said Elian had seemed a "completely different boy." The meeting hardened their resolve to take him home. "I feel angry and impotent," a tearful Rodriguez told TIME. "What is happening is inhuman." But Elian's Miami clan had its own spin. Marisleysis Gonzalez, 21, a cousin who seems to portray herself as Elian's new mom, crowed to reporters that he had rejected his abuelas and was now on her "side...
...maquiladora industry, and I knew from the beginning what I wanted to study." But the gist of his dissertation has surprised even Hamm. Previous research had created a literature of oppression. Hamm's interviews with factory workers in Juarez presented a different view. "Fairly consistently," says Hamm, "they portray a picture of opportunity and hope, not despair and disillusionment. I don't want to deny the literature of oppression. I just want to open up the possibility that other stories can emerge that ought to be considered." When people ask Hamm, now 58, what he expects to do with...