Word: portrayal
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...haunted this music, with verses mourning loss of ancestral land to European farmers and love eroded by the distance between a Zulu migrant worker and his rural family waiting for him and his wages. Now in South Africa many isicathamiya performers no longer denounce white minority rule. New lyrics portray Africans straddling rural tradition and urban modernity, and dreams of well-being and the reality of suffering in a world of multiracial democracy. Yet at least one vestige of apartheid still defines isicathamiya. Late shows are deliberately extended to dawn, reflecting a recent past when curfew laws prevented blacks from...
Bush's latest marketing technique has been to portray the cut as a necessary antidote to recession. Yet if we are on the brink of a recession, then the surplus estimates are incorrect, meaning that in a few years we may not have any money to spend on tax cuts. Additionally, gradually phasing in a long-term tax cut plan will not have any immediate effect on a recession--Bush's top economic advisor, Lawrence B. Lindsey, has written that tax cuts have too slow an effect to be useful in fighting recessions. Fighting a short-term recession is better...
...editors of the Talmud followed Rava's one-liner with this story in order to warn against the dangers of excessive alcohol use and to express strong ambivalence or even opposition to Rava's line itself. Thus, to portray Judaism as unequivocally alcohol-friendly is a distortion of the Jewish tradition...
Lopez's songs portray her as an optimist (someone who wouldn't, one might surmise, let a boyfriend's legal troubles drag her down). She's only a fair vocalist, but, hey, it isn't as if Britney is Aretha. With sheer will, sheer clothing and perhaps some method acting, Lopez has made herself a true pop star...
...book, with 17 terse stories crammed into 159 pages, solidified Carver's reputation but left him feeling that he had ceded too much control to his editor. (He later restored Lish's cuts to two of the stories and included them in Where I'm Calling From.) Carver devotees portray Lish as the villain of this piece, an overreaching editor who bullied an uncertain beginning writer. Lish's defenders argue that he did for Carver's fiction what Ezra Pound did for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, i.e., cut out the fat to expose the essential genius within...