Word: portrayal
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...their age. As the maid, Ellen Bledsoe tries to add a note of humor to the tragedy, but her performance is too much of a caricature for the realistic tone of the piece. As the Tyrone brothers, Zelman and Talenti give excellent, though vastly different performances. Together, they portray the wide range of emotions between the protective yet resentful James and the more accepting and hopeful Edmund. Talenti gives an especially understated interpretation well adapted to the small stage area...
DOWNRIGHT SILLINESS also makes a cameo appearance in the book. Mandelbaum and Talbott portray the Administration's revocation of the Soviet ambassador's limousine privileges as a significant turning point in President Reagan's "counterrevolution" against detente. That's the only concrete example they give of the Administration's cool attitude toward the Soviets. Symbolism may be important, but surely the Administration has taken more significant actions than forcing the ambassador to enter the State Department by the main lobby...
...such an exciting job as her assignment with North. "She felt she was at the vortex of history," says a friend. Her life is not likely to settle down just yet, however. Fawn is in sudden demand as a model, and Actress Farrah Fawcett has called with plans to portray her in a movie. Let's see, Ryan O'Neal could play Arturito, Cliff Robertson could be Oliver North...
...rather than disgust about the incident. She takes a similar tone when dealing with J.F.K. the philanderer. His compulsive womanizing, says Goodwin, was a symptom of his dread of intimacy and his fear of early death. He suffered from Addison's disease. But previous accounts of Kennedy hanky-panky portray an insensitive Regency buck claiming sexual entitlements...
...works seem more fluent because they represent the influence of past art on present artists by--within their plays--showing films of what influences them to write. The others expose their own arts and become all too obvious as they write about the process of writing. Llosa and Skarmeta portray writers-at-work who pace back and forth creating poetry and writing and erasing the multiple climaxes of a trash novel...