Word: portrayal
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...British actor and director Steven Berkoff's solo performance Requiem to Ground Zero. (Both, along with dozens of other Sept. 11-themed shows, graced this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.) "I haven't tried to make political capital," says Berkoff. "I feel deeply for the victims and wanted to portray that." While Berkoff uses verse to emphasize the epic magnitude of the disaster, French playwright Michel Vinaver goes one step further. His homage, The 11th September 2001, which will premiere at Barcelona's National Theater of Catalonia in October, couples expressions heard on and around the day itself with...
...while the Israelis hope to use the trial to mark the PA as a duplicitous terror infrastructure that systematically betrayed its security undertakings to Israel, Barghouti will portray Israel as a colonial master claiming authority over 3.5 million West Bank and Gaza Palestinians. Exhibit A: his own trial by a state in which he lacks the democratic rights of a citizen...
Today Indians are looking to their own oral histories, as well as reading between the lines of the journals, to re-interpret what happened. Says Ben Sherman, president of the Western American Indian Chamber in Denver: "The upcoming events portray Clark as the benevolent protector of Indians--that's propagandist baloney." The tragic aftermath: as Governor of the Missouri Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Clark presided over President Thomas Jefferson's land-grab policy, which some historians characterize as a direct cause of "cultural genocide" and "ethnic cleansing...
...uncertainty. Accounts vary as to whether British regulars or the Lexington farmers fired the first shot. In the Patriots Day reenactment, a person dressed as neither a British regular nor a Minuteman fires the first shot from outside the Green. This recreated version of history certainly does not portray the way the battle actually began, but it is considered better than taking sides with either of the plausible possibilities...
Perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise, therefore, that many of the city’s tabloids and journalists, in their coverage of his death, chose not to portray the real John Gotti. Few were willing to acknowledge that, yes, the man had been a murderous criminal. A New York Post columnist argued that while “Gotti sure as hell may have whacked some goodfellas-badfellas in the pursuit of business…his crew didn’t come near mine or your wallets, like the Enron sissies did.” This same...