Word: portrayal
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Robert Coles has found a way at least to begin, if possible, to understand how such statements can be uttered. He studies and talks to their children, and the result is a book called Privileged Ones, in which he attempts to portray the children of the well-off and the rich, and the ones who are running this country. At the same time Coles has published the fourth volume of the Children of Crisis series, Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians, a book he believes the "narcissism of the rich" will overshadow. And, as he leaves his University Health Services office...
Insurance officials wonder. They portray trial lawyers as hired gunslingers who play on jurors' emotions to win unreasonable awards. The lawyers meanwhile paint insurance companies as profit-hungry and indifferent to the welfare of victims. Says Duane Gingerich of The Research Group Inc., a national legal analysis firm: "The enmity between insurers and trial lawyers is deteriorating into trench warfare...
...delightful extent, Heathcliff, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Graham Weir in Term of Trial and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. Perhaps, many hope, he will return to the stage someday, if not to undertake a more mature Lear (he did it in '46 at the Old Vic), then perhaps to portray Prospero. There are those of us who would swim the Atlantic for a chance to see that...
People are watching less television [Jan. 9] because the programs are offensive. Situation comedies, daytime serials and police shows portray family life as abnormal, life as cheap, love as lust and sin as harmless...
...unfortunate that Bertolucci chose to portray unresolveable tension; whether or not his message is valid, it does not lend itself easily to a heavyhanded treatment. The main conflict in 1900 is the love these two men bear for each other, across ideological and social grounds; and the main question we are left with is why they bear it. De Niro and Depardieu are both fine actors, and play their roles well, so the fault lies elsewhere--probably with their director. In his effort to give 1900 an epic vastness, it seems, Bertolucci lost sight of the smaller things, the individuals...