Word: portrayal
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Bosworth strives to portray Aubus as the misunderstood artist. At the first public exhibition of he works, the Museum of Modern Art show in March 1967, critics dismissed her as a freak artist. It wasn't until a year after Arbus death that the art world embraced her work. Her pieces were exhibited at the Venice Biennale, a portfolio of her work was published in Art Forum and her name "was rapidly acquiring a semi-mythic status...
What kind of idiot could get himself into this fix? What actor could portray such an idiot? The answer to the second question (Dudley Moore) spends two and a half hours answering the first in Blake Edwards' latest romantic celluloid conniption, Micki and Maude...
...students have come into sufficiently close contact with the president to evaulate his personality and moral values. His private personna is obscured by the headlines that portray him only as a policy maker, the man who interprets injustices and to whom we address our grievances...
...cancer in 1978 at age 57, was a former British army officer with three years' experience in India. Less a fluent stylist than a ferociously honest and fair-minded observer, he was determined to do justice to both sides of the equation in British India. In order to portray the Empire in the round, he told his almost 2,000-page story through a complex symphony of flashbacks, fast-forward prolepses and as many as 13 perspectives on a single incident...
...reaching out to consulting firms for expertise and training. Lawrence Darby, a former bank president, this year started a firm called Bankers Training & Consulting in St. Louis. One of its most successful educational tools is a video called The Worst Loan I Ever Made. Actors in the video portray bankers who deliver admonitions like "If the crooks don't get you, your friends will." The film, which costs $375, has so far been shown to more than 6,000 bankers. Says Darby: "There are more changes going on in banking than in Silicon Valley. There is a tremendous amount...