Word: portrayal
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...film manages to portray even the level-headed Ian MacKaye (founder of Dischord Records, and member of Minor Threat and Fugazi), as an off-the-wall fanatic. The Minutemen—subjects of their own excellent documentary “We Jam Econo”—are the only band whose importance equals their portrayal in “American Hardcore,” but their folksy, jazzy punk sounds could hardly be called “hardcore” in the first place...
...Packard in 2005, Fiorina explained that in the end, she was “at peace” with her decision to “stay true to her values and tell the truth” instead of saving face and letting the board of directors that fired her portray her dismissal as her choice and a result of a desire to move...
...champion of the dispersed and dispossessed, the victim of piling-on by outside forces, and rally those still living outside the city to the cause. Nagin, however, had one advantage that Jefferson lacks: his chief opponents in the mayoral race were white, making it easy for him to portray the contest as a power grab in a demographically shaken "chocolate city," as he so memorably put it. Jefferson's major challengers, on the other hand, are African-American...
...Build a Bridge,” McDonald has selected songs that portray complicated emotional states, showing off her acting as well as singing talent...
...homage to genre and I just didn’t get it. Questions like, “Is ‘Showgirls’ really a brilliant farce on adult entertainment?” or “Is ‘Gigli” about the way we portray lesbianism in modern American media?’ have tormented me forever...