Word: portrayal
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...Requesting the arrest is a high-stakes maneuver for Putin, in light of Gusinsky's efforts to portray the legal proceedings against him as nothing more than a political witch hunt. The spectacle of Gusinsky being sent home in handcuffs by Spanish law enforcement officers will undermine his claims to martyrdom - at least in the court of Russian public opinion. But then the converse may also be true: If Spain's courts fail to find merit in the case brought by Russia, it may actually help Gusinsky paint himself as the victim of political machinations...
Averell and Gerety portray themselves as outsider candidates who would bring a new approach to a council they regard as too political...
First, it is clearly illogical and false to portray Gore as the savior of American gun control. Under the Clinton-Gore Administration, federal gun prosecutions have dropped by 46 percent, and there have been only eight prosecutions out of over 200,000 direct violations of the Brady Law (which requires an instant background check of anyone attempting to purchase a firearm). Prosecutors have simply not had the necessary resources to aggressively enforce our gun laws...
...also voiced reluctance to blame Green Party candidate Ralph Nader for stealing the election from Gore, saying that he has great affinity for Nader's perceptions. At the same time, he said that it was disingenuous of Nader to portray the election as a Tweedledum-Tweedledee choice...
...fewer than three plays. Tovah Feldshuh is the star and co-author of Tallulah Hallelujah!, an off-Broadway play in the form of a fictional USO show with Bankhead as host. Nan Schmid, formerly of the Second City improv troupe, wrote and stars in Dahling, in which eight actors portray more than 40 characters in Bankhead's life. And Kathleen Turner, last seen as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in London, is touring the country in a Broadway-bound, one-woman show called (three guesses) Tallulah...