Word: portrayal
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...from focusing on themotivations that are implicit in each definingmoment of his character. “I’m tryingto make a distinction between focusedacting and what I call casual acting, andthere is a lot of casual acting in Americanfilms today,” he said.Cooper has often portrayed darkcharacters, and while Harry Allen is notoutwardly sinister, Cooper’s performanceilluminates the rationale behind his violentchoices. “It’s not qualities I liked inthe man,” Cooper said, “it’s qualities I understood,where I found...
...understand that many students here are opposed to the war, but the majority express their views in a respectful manner,” he added, “It only disrespects those who do support the honorable men and women in combat by trying to portray them as idiots.” But Krahel said this was not the group’s intention. “We were definitely not demonstrating against the troops,” he said. “It was against the emptiness of the rhetoric on the pro-war and conservative side...
...write a television show. Measured against more thoughtful and meaningful occupations, this is not the best seat from which to argue public policy or social justice. Still, those viewers who followed The Wire - our HBO drama that tried to portray all sides of inner-city collapse, including the drug war, with as much detail and as little judgment as we could muster - tell us they've invested in the fates of our characters. They worry or grieve for Bubbles, Bodie or Wallace, certain that these characters are fictional yet knowing they are rooted in the reality of the other America...
...recently suffered, with growth slowing in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 3.3% (down from 4.3% in the fourth quarter of 2006) and unemployment rising to 8.6%. With 35.9% of Spaniards rating the economy "bad" or "very bad" (up from 25.4% the previous year), both parties are seeking to portray themselves as fixers of the country's financial problems...
Does knowing you are a role model affect what parts you choose to play? -Nina Chung, Hermosa Beach, Calif.I don't consider myself a role model-I make mistakes all the time. It's more about how I want to portray women and myself. I played a stripper in Closer, and now it sickens me how many scripts I get where the woman is a stripper or a prostitute. I also have this sort of good-girl image-it's such a virgin-whore thing with female roles...