Word: portrayal
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...self-interest than by tunnel vision. But even his most pointed observations are, at bottom, funny. When he satirizes network news in an anecdote showing how television "covered" the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden Eden, it is with the lightest of touches. Baker's ability to portray the less palatable sides of American life while keeping readers chuckling at his insights has made him America's funniest social critic; it also makes the Almanac splendid reading...
...government launched a propaganda barrage against Solidarity by broadcasting over the state radio some tape-recorded excerpts from a closed-door meeting of the union's leadership. The excerpts accounted for only about 30 minutes of what had been a twelve-hour discussion, but they tended to portray the leaders as troublesome and uncompromising. Walesa was quoted as having said: "The confrontation is unavoidable, and it will take place . . . I wanted to reach [it] in a natural way, when almost all social groups were with us. But I made a mistake because I thought we would keep...
...deploy U.S. intermediate-range missiles if the Soviets dismantle theirs, he tried, belatedly and for the first time, to allay Europe's roiling fears. He also sought to undercut Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had skillfully exploited America's essential and long-held views on nuclear strategy to portray the Soviet Union as the only superpower devoted to the search for peace (see ESSAY). While Reagan's proposal was hailed by Europe's leaders, the reaction of the peace groups was ambivalent. They took credit for forcing the President to act, but claimed he had not gone far enough...
...next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five of them. That's because in the other two, I'm dead...
...director wisely chose to cast non-professionals, boys whose backgrounds are similar to those of the characters they portray. When he shoots a large event, such as a riot in the prison, he does so with the detachment of a news reporter, following the action as it happens without dramatic flair...