Word: portrayal
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...movies portray the state's citizens as Bayou-dwellers hunting for crawfish and speaking a kind of bastardized French. This is the land of "The Big Easy"--not of apple pie, baseball or Chevrolet...
Reyes cleverly skirted disaster on this outing. Peter Shaffer's script for The Private Ear rarely distinguishes itself from other "boy is too shy to get the girl" narratives, but the director chose three exceptional actors to portray the play's only characters...
...Gates hearings Senators struggled to determine the nominee's role in past CIA enterprises and whether he was acting out of principled belief or narrow ambition. Whatever your conclusion on those issues, the hearings revealed the CIA in the 1980s as an institution determined to portray Soviet communism as an ever growing threat, no matter what the evidence. The agency produced an intentionally one-sided report on possible Soviet involvement in the assassination attempt on the Pope and presented it as a balanced view -- in support of Director William Casey's conviction that the Soviets were behind all international terror...
...client Ross Johnson in his abortive attempt to buy the food and tobacco company he headed. The defeat was a setback for her husband too. American Express's Shearson Lehman unit had bankrolled Johnson, and Jim Robinson had worked closely on the deal. More recently, she sought to portray Milken as a misunderstood benefactor of the poor. But the campaign had little impact on perceptions of the junk man, who is serving a 10-year sentence for violating securities laws...
...scion of an Atlanta banking family, Robinson, 55, maintains a courtly manner and has donned the mantle of corporate elder statesman by frequently testifying before Congress and speaking out on pet issues like the benefits of free trade. Chairman since 1977, he has managed to portray himself as a leader above the fray of day-to-day problems, which has earned him a reputation as a Teflon-coated executive...