Word: portrayal
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...with many sensitive issues, community acceptance will not come without community education. Much of the tremendous fear, distrust and hostility towards the homeless is the result of misconceptions. It would be romanticizing--not to say patronizing--to portray the homeless as a meek group of people. But violence, both verbal and physical, does not characterize the homeless community...
Elwes:"After having got hold of biographies, I had wanted to portray Guilford quite differently because his personality had been adapted [to include] strong political beliefs. I had to work hand in hand with David [Edgar] in portraying Guilford, realizing that he could only play for so long before becoming serious...
...best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo has already been optioned for the movies by Jane Fonda, who plans to portray Winslow. How is Fuentes, currently in residence at Harvard, enjoying success north of the border? "You don't have too much time to stop and say 'Hey, I'm a celebrity,' because such things mean nothing in the face of death," he observes. "I have little time and I want...
...toward violence, a lack of compassion, a reveling in the bizarre. His comic scenes made viewers wonder whether he was laughing with or at his characters. His work has shifted from expressionist flights of fancy to a kind of grim, weird naturalism and has tended more and more to portray families as the poisoned wellspring of human evil. He has brought to life the same fumbling, feckless dreamers from the heartland that Tennessee Williams did and, like Williams, has shown a special sensitivity to the yearnings of women. But having seen the world with cold comprehension, he has lacked...
There has been a striking bifurcation between toys that portray war and those that suggest the psychedelic peace symbols of the '60s. In the former catagory we have black and gray Voltrons, Zybots, Immortals of Change, Gobots, Grapplors, and the TV stars Masters of the Universe. The latter group includes the Glo Worm Musical World (remember the Plastic Exploding Inevitable?), Care Bear Cousins, Hugga Bunch Dolls, Pianosaurus, My Little Pony with Pony Wear Clothes and Jewelry, Baby Hugs or Tugs (take your pick, I guess), Rainbow Brite and Co., and finally the Cabbage Patch Dimensional Gift...