Word: portrayal
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...million-member United Food and Commercial Workers union trusts that the American public will listen to Mama. In an effort to communicate with the public about issues that affect labor, the organization has hired Actress Vicki Lawrence. She will portray the irascible, aggressively cracker-brained character Mama, whom she played first on the Carol Burnett Show and later on her own sitcom Mama's Family, in a series of light but straight-talking television commercials on themes such as union organizing, foreign takeovers and brand boycotts. Lawrence, a Reagan Republican, signed a one-year, $150,000 contract with the anti...
...want to be “radical,” but because we care about issues that aren’t considered radical too. Our less “radical” events also tend to be our less noticed events, however, and from the way our critics portray us, you might be surprised to find out about our Same-Sex Marriage Panel or our Supporter Appreciation Event. Nevertheless, queer issues of national importance also resonate at Harvard, and we try our best to address those issues...
...film was something to set a tone, about how to portray all sorts of behavior in America,” Miller expounds. “What I’m thinking, you are confronted with people who still hold cliché ideas of women and people of color. The remix foregrounds these kinds of issues...
Meaney manages to portray Jimmy with both the hardened veneer of a country boy who has made it in the big world and the aw-shucks-ness little brothers almost necessarily possess. Hill is the wizened Irish grandfather we all wish we could have to tell us stories by a roaring fire. And Andrea Corr, lead singer for the internationally acclaimed pop/rock/Celtic group the Corrs, bucks the trend of musicians-turned-bad-actresses: she is absolutely stunning as Anne, the reigning band’s gifted fiddler...
...actors very ably portray their characters’ struggles with their burdens of anger and recrimination. In particular, Ellen C. Quigley ’07 (A) admirably projects the mannerisms and emotional crisis of old age through the heavy layers of old-woman makeup and mannerisms. Laurel T. Holland ’06, as B, portrays simultaneous pain and cruelty without compromising her character’s hard exterior. Although Michelle A. Chaney ’05 (C) seems to have less to do, since her character largely serves as the catalyst for the revelations of the other...