Word: portrayal
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Throughout all of anime, one senses a dark current coupled with lightness and comedy. There is a frustration with the progress of capitalism, but at the same time, fantasies portray its benefits. For instance, one finds a cautionary note about the human search for utopia in the movie "Appleseed", where a world programmed to be perfect through scientific advances becomes as much of a prison as the pre-utopia world of toil and strife...
...really lose it until we were delivered to an IMAX theater to watch a tourist movie on the Canyon. Here we had one of the great natural wonders of the world, the story of which began billions of years ago, and all that these intrepid filmmakers could think to portray were four 19th century cowboys navigating the Canyon's rapids...
...know," she said, "I've made it a practice not to comment on pending investigations, and I'm not going to do that now. But I think it's very important that as you make these allegations and as you portray them in television or on your headlines, you try to clarify just what the issues are." Then she proceeded to read the "significant" passages aloud in an effort, a Reno aide later explained, to say, "There is no crime here." Or at least not so far. "The plain fact of the matter," the aide says, "is that Congress changed...
Participants must quickly pull together facts, integrate the ideas of other delegates, and convincingly portray the opinions of their country in speeches and discussion, Nimalasuriya said...
GROZNY, Russia: New Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov took the oath of office in a ceremony designed to help build up a sense of national identity in the shattered region. Because the Moscow government was determined to portray the inauguration in the secessionist republic as an internal Russian affair, few foreign leaders were present at the event. Now comes the hard part for Maskhadov, who built his fame as a tough-minded and decisive military leader in masterminding several key victories in Chechnya's bloody struggle with Russia. He is faced with a large-scale reconstruction of Chechnya. The war left...