Word: portrayal
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Finished with everyone his size, he is ready to try Bruce Jenner again, to act in movies, perhaps portray Henry Armstrong, the legendary champion of three weight divisions (whose record Alexis Arguello could not break last week against Aaron Pryor). "Boxers in the past have been known to be ugly," Ali told Leonard. "But we're pretty. You and I can't take credit, though. It started with Sugar Ray Robinson. He was a pretty man before us. Pretty...
...doctor's Jewish identity seems to be the source of his problems and his effect on everyone: Morreau's simplistic attempt to portray the resulting tensions fails because her images are too stereotypically flat. More of a presence than a character, the doctor's black suit and ever present dark car too heavily suggest his mysterious nature...
...McDaniel, a Vietnam War veteran who attempted to portray incumbent Charles Whitley as an unrepentant fool of the Democratic leadership...
Besides dismissing such claims as "garbage," Wilson supporters have gotten some mileage out of Hatch's perceived coldness and aloofness, while trying to portray Wilson as a warm and trusting person. The implications, though, do not appear to take the mayor far enough to overtake the incumbent's popularity at home. Though his own communications director concedes that Hatch is not "warm and fuzzy," the Republican is the favorite going...
...wonder, then, that writers have taken such pains to portray the power of certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely...