Word: portrayal
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...quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity as to where it came from...
...researchers estimate that more than half the 1.2 million people who portray themselves as discouraged workers either have never actually sought a job or stopped looking at least half a year ago. Some are virtually unable to work because of physical or emotional problems. Others are dropouts from society, finding it easier to lead a marginal day-today existence or to hustle odd jobs for unreported cash as part of the so-called underground economy. Although most discouraged workers claim they are willing to take any job, even the lowest paid and most menial, some are holdouts who would rather...
...long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The Cameo. Playing papa in retirement, John's scene calls...
...were done about spending and taxes. "We're dealing with perceptions here," explained one White House aide, "and the perception is that Reagan is bringing the deficit down after it was in danger of being wildly out of control." Nor did it hurt to have leak after leak portray the President as stubbornly resisting the tax increases being urged by his advisers...
When Director Roman Polanski (Tess), 48, was mulling over candidates to portray Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the upcoming Paris production of the Broadway hit Amadeus, he cast his eye near and far, and finally settled on near. He chose himself. After all, who better to capture the essence of the young musical prodigy with the libertine air than a child actor turned acclaimed adult director with a sometime taste for the reckless moment. Polanski, who will direct the play, which stars Francois Périer, 62, as Mozart's nemesis Antonio Salieri, and Actress Sonia Vollereaux...