Word: portrayal
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...spending as part of the effort to balance the budget. And the amount they're hoping to squeeze out of Medicare--$270 billion over seven years--is embarrassingly close to the amount--$245 billion--they're planning in tax cuts, mainly for the affluent. Naturally, they would prefer to portray their Medicare cuts as an effort to "save Medicare." But $270 billion is double what would be needed just to stabilize the trust fund...
...other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City in 1986, "and my father named me after his favorite player, Mickey Cochrane. I grew up in Commerce...
...wrote a detailed confession -- was psychologically destabilized by a lifetime of betrayals: a father who killed himself, a stepfather who molested her, a husband who cheated on her and a boyfriend who toyed with her affections. The prosecution, led by 16th Circuit solicitor Thomas Pope, is expected to portray Smith's murderous act as the culmination of a life of deceit and manipulation. In reality, both characterizations may contain elements of truth...
...core, "Pocahontas" remains what its creators set out to portray: a beautiful love story...
Loyalty to the spirit of the legend is a strength in the picture because the film chooses to portray a magical, mystical America. In doing so, it brings to life Native American supernatural beliefs. What is clearly most important in the film is creating a vision of America that is symbolized by unpolluted purity...