Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ridge comes forth. (After all that, the White House began talking about a compromise.) And some Republicans grumble that by refusing to release information to Congress about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, the White House has pointlessly provided the Democrats with ammunition in their effort to portray Bush and the G.O.P. as tools of Big Business. "Why antagonize people you're going to need down the road?" asks a senior Republican Senator...
...give us positive stories about folks who try hard to get it right and who serve us a lot better than conventional wisdom would have it. If so, maybe the audience is saying we are hoping for better from both those who hold the public trust and those who portray it - in the headlines and on the screen...
...text and the themes of the music together in Psalm 23. At times soft and ethereal, light and melodic, the music then gathers to a roar. The male voices sing the words of the text while the female voices rise in pitch to a height sufficient to portray the magnanimity of divine presence. Elkies’ piece was incredibly moving...
...actresses all portray the strength of discovering one’s own independence. An outstanding example of this is the monologue delivered by Kristy M. Johnson ’02, “somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff,” in which she exclaims, “stealin’ my shit from me / don’t make it yours / makes it stolen.” Johnson, arrayed in orange, exhibits the sharp wit and comedic sensibility necessary to carry this poem respectably...
However, in spite of its accessibility, the work encourages further exploration and contemplation. The abstract nature of the work, while speaking to objective thoughts, also invites personal interpretation and valuation. Since the work does not explicitly portray any particular object, the pieces can become intimately connected to the viewer on a more fundamental level...