Word: portrayal
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...anxiety and fears of inadequacy. Character quirks, brought out by the mismatching of Jone Ferrar and Mia Farrow, who play a prompous professor and a flirtatious free-thinker, respectively, offer occasional giggles. Less obvious jokes are found in Golden Willis' whimsical camera work as he bobs and sways to portray the view from Allen's homemade flying bicycle...
...month period) have an interest in legislation before the Ways and Means Committee. While there is no indication that Rostenkowski did any favors for his hosts, the disclosures were the political equivalent of a tee shot out of bounds for the House Democratic leadership, which has been trying to portray the Reagan Administration as beholden to the country-club set. On two occasions, the Post reported, Rostenkowski's golfing companion was House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The amiable Rostenkowski, who is more comfortable with the ward politics of Chicago than the intricacies of tax legislation, was rarely...
...granted visas to 401 foreign participants who it said were connected with Communist organizations, despite a suit filed in federal court by U.S. civil rights groups demanding entry for the visitors. Meanwhile, White House officials were concerned that the rally could only hurt Administration attempts to portray the President as a peacemaker...
...removed. The players had important things to say, assessments of the coach and the program that could have improved Harvard football. But now that they have virtually recanted, intimidated by the heat, the changes easy never come. The players have made it easy for Restic--or anyone else--to portray the whole issue as the product of a few malcontented publicity bounds...
This sequence succeeds entirely through Manoff's performance Although the part demands surprisingly little of her Manoff manages to transcend the limitations of the cliche-ridden script and to portray Libby as a real person, not merely a mouthpiece for Neil Simon's jokes...