Word: portrayal
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...story than Malle. As he demonstrated in Murmur of the Heart and Lacombe, Lucien, this great French director has a deep understanding of the process by which benign children change into corrupt adults. Like his old New Wave colleague, François Truffaut, he also has the ability to portray children on-screen without condescension or sentimentality. These talents are evident in Pretty Baby; yet the movie does not work. Even though Malle has approached his film's potentially grisly subject with taste and compassion, Pretty Baby is often static and almost always shallow...
...only stereotyped outlines for the characters, leaving any detail or fleshing-out to the cast-members--each of whom plays several different roles. But as stereotypes go, U.S.A.'s emerge acceptably. Although few of the players succeed in developing their roles beyond superficial characterization, most of the stereotypes they portray are themselves enjoyable...
Some new ads do portray women as serious people, Kilbourne said, "but usually they just take the old stereotype and put a briefcase in her hand. Then we feel doubly guilty, because not only is she beautiful, but she has a high-paying...
...stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths to portray the entire 17-year period before the Cultural Revolution as a kind of halcyon era, when life was normal and the old veteran bureaucrats were in charge...
Probably the single most important concept that the convention has dealt with is representation. The new student government simply must be representative of student opinion to effectively portray them and help shape University policy...