Word: portrayal
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From Washington State to Missouri to Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates found themselves on the defensive Wednesday as the Republican Party worked ferociously at every level to try to use the primary defeat of Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut to portray the opposition as the party of weakness and isolation on national security and liberal leanings on domestic policy. Doleful Democrats bemoaned the irony: At a time when Republicans should be back on their heels because of chaos abroad and President Bush's unpopularity, the Democrats' rejection of a sensible, moralistic centrist has handed the GOP a weapon that could have vast...
Other than informing MacFarlane that Harvard seniors would like to hear him portray Stewie pontificate about taking over the world, the committee gave him no further direction in his speech...
...stamp signals a kind of American enshrinement for their place in history. Last year's issue of a Ronald Reagan stamp saw some of the briskest sales in postal history, and no doubt when Bill Clinton passes on in the future there will be a debate about how to portray his likeness - just as there was over the Richard Nixon stamp...
...organizer, Wolfgang Schmidt, a former agent, who also used his website to accuse the museum's director, Hubertus Knabe, of being a "professional agitator." Earlier this month, Schmidt was ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine. Two new books by ex-Stasi agents also portray the secret police as professional men upholding the law of the land. "In our intelligence work we never used methods that led to serious crimes, terror or murder," said one of the authors, Gotthold Schramm, at a press conference. Stasi victims in the audience greeted that statement with loud jeers...
DIED. Frankie Thomas, 85, curly-haired actor who shot to fame in the '50s as the hero of TV's Tom Corbett, Space Cadet; in Los Angeles. The live, often cheesy show--it once employed a turtle to portray an evil dinosaur--followed the 24th century exploits of Tom and his fellow Space Academy trainees, who aimed to ensure "universal peace." Airing three times a week, it spawned idioms ("Don't blow your jets!") and dozens of Tom Corbett products. After the show ended in 1955, Thomas quit acting--"After Tom, where else could I go?" he said--and became...