Word: portrayal
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Your cover illustration "political jungle" depicts the "beasts" roaming the African jungles, but fails to portray the victims: the African natives...
...less fervid. Republican Perry Duryea, minority leader in the state assembly, is proposing a freeze on local tax rates as he opposes Democratic Governor Hugh Carey's bid for reelection. Duryea also proposes cutting state taxes by $2.2 billion (20%) over four years. Carey, meanwhile, is trying to portray himself as a tightwad and his G.O.P. foes as big spenders. Accepting his nomination last week, Carey denounced "the wretched record of Republican recklessness" and asked: "Who raised taxes eight times in 16 years? They did. And who cut taxes by a billion dollars in the last two years...
...Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny, the dark, flip side of it? Kleiser simply flattens out this conflict. It is possible, of course, that Olivia Newton-John does not have it within her to portray a girl deeply tempted to break out of her square cultural mold, but we know that John Travolta has the stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive and energy he displayed in Saturday Night Fever or even the nicely observed rebellious...
...decorated prehistoric caves have been found in Spain and France, and the existence of paleolithic painting has been established beyond doubt. The ancient artisans also left behind tiny sculptures of exquisite beauty, meticulous carvings on mammoth bone, and other stunning objects. Like the tableaux on the cave walls, some portray paleolithic man's animal neighbors. Others, often rendered in an almost contemporary style, show the Cro-Magnon people themselves...
...Myers's attempt to portray the noble and tragic emperor gets bogged down in a cycle of sad, mournful, barely audible line-readings followed by maniacal, ear-shattering ranting and ravings. Myers fails to stress the other side of the emperor--the cool, calculating, dispassionate side. After a while, the audience feels like it is on a roller-coaster--one gets the stop-and-start effect, but it's a little difficult to enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health...