Word: portrayal
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...race thus boils down mostly to a choice between personalities. Specter has hired Campaign Consultant David Garth, who has put together a series of TV ads that portray the ex-D.A. as a man who would serve all Pennsylvanians, from the poor in Philadelphia to the steelworkers in Pittsburgh. Specter has also amassed a war chest of $1 million, including $525,000 from state and national Republican committees. Flaherty, whose previous campaigns were managed by his wife, has taken elocution lessons from a college debate coach and hired Washington Pollster Peter Hart, who advised him to stress his record...
...back in her cage?" A feud on the set between two aging prima donnas? Yes and no. The sniping is all in the script for The Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens who are cast, to their mutual misery, in the same motion picture. Though not intimate in their real-life heyday -"We knew each other only to wave to," Novak recalls -the actresses go at it as if they had despised each other for centuries. "They...
...change is in the hands of women. They run the political education program. Which is responsible for programs from lectures sponsored by the defense committees to elementary school classes, and which teaches that men and women are equally capable. The books used in the literacy campaign portray both men and women as good revolutionaries. Perhaps this generation of men will be slow to change, but the next generation will be brought up with our new revolutionary values," she says...
Republicans regard the Carter-Mondale tactic as dirty politics. But Reagan professes no unease and refuses to make a point-by-point rebuttal to the attempt "to portray me as a combination of Ebenezer Scrooge and the mad bomber." Instead, says Reagan, he will concentrate on attacking Carter's record as President...
...voice. Perhaps this comes from my radio days. After that I establish how the character walks. And then suddenly something strange happens. The person takes over. I stare at my own image in the mirror waiting for the other fellow, the man I'm going to portray, to emerge-to stare back at me. And then it happens. I have the feeling that the film character enters my body as if I were a kind of medium. It's a little frightening...