Word: portrayal
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...Rajiv Gandhi, a Tiger vessel has been used to transport weapons from al-Qaeda to the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines and to Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna. But while the U.S. is trying to portray itself as "bad cop" and "a menacing hard-ass," according to one Western diplomat in Colombo, Prabhakaran last week publicly called their bluff. "We do not think America would intervene," he said dismissively. "We are not Muslims...
...those readers, he responds, “you know, set them on fire. Burn their faces off.” There is something brave and earnest in Marcus’ insistence on these (not entirely original) ideas about how we use language and in his attempt to portray the resilience of emotions through their negation. Marcus deserves credit for his sophistication and ambition. But the presentation of these concepts is such that most readers will be inclined to take the novel as an object of study—as an example of inventive things you can do with language...
...fair coverage of world events, then it cannot ignore violence in parts of the world that are more foreign to us than others. For people to believe that human rights are essential and that these rights must be protected regardless of where they live, then the media cannot portray a world in which only those closest to America deserve news time...
Life of the City, a three-part exhibit, endeavors to portray New York City from a multitude of photographic perspectives. The first part, comprised of photographs culled from the museum’s permanent collection, surveys more than a century of photography in and of New York. A rotating display of photographs contributed by residents of and visitors to the city comprises the second section, and the final third consists of a cinematic presentation of work taken from Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, a project carried out by volunteers who collected photographs of the events...
...struggles with this belabored script, posturing, grimacing and trembling through each scene in an attempt to convince the audience of the horror of her situation. Yet, in order to recreate herself as a believably unlikely heroine, Foster applies an air of uncertainty to the character of Meg, attempting to portray a normal woman who is pushed to courageous limits by exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, the resulting combination of hyperactive anxiety and vacillation results in a character who puts audience members on the edges of their seats not in terror, but in irritation. One is too busy being annoyed by Foster?...