Word: portrayal
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...dramatic developments have all been at the very, very top - not the top 1% but the top 0.01%, who now control 5.46% of all income, their highest share on record. (The data go back to 1913.) Most of these people are well educated, but it's awfully hard to portray their riches purely as rewards for education or skill...
...said. The Academy is a program for high school students from public and parochial schools in Boston and Cambridge to better understand the opportunities offered by attending college. Donahue also recognized the University’s active approach to recruitment and outreach policies. Such measures aim to portray education as an attainable goal regardless of one’s income. “As somebody who cares deeply about access and affordability, and believes in young people getting a college education,” Donahuse said, “I really believe there is hope in the future...
...premise of the film over and over again. The casting company even forgot to do their job as well, as one of the most distracting issues in the movie is the gap between the actors’ ages and the ages of the characters they are meant to portray. Ironically, the result of relying entirely on a tried-and-true framework is that the framework itself begins to fail. Normally, Hannah’s innocent expressions would be considered endearing as the plot deepens and the audience allows the story to take them on a ride. Without a deepening plot...
...surprised to see a cover story on Obama's mother - yes, the same mother we have heard so little about until now - to help quell the tide of white America's concern over where his true loyalties lie, in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright controversy. The attempt to portray Obama as a man made in his mother's image was painfully obvious. How simple and foolish TIME must think its readers are to put out such a story right before a primary that could assure Obama the Democratic presidential nomination. Why has Obama's mother suddenly become important...
...just messy.” As soon as the film ended, a DAPA sparked talk among those in attendance by asking how relevant the movie was to Harvard. The discussion focused largely on the advertisement of alcohol, namely how beer and other liquor commercials often portray an average Joe surrounded by gorgeous women. “People are drawn to him like a magnet just because he has a beer in his hand,” says James E. Causey about the ludicrousness of the ads. Says DAPA board member JP F. Chilazi ’10 of the event...