Word: portrayal
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...going to make it impossible for the Senate to declare a winner, and even the Democrats, who badly wanted their party to gain the seat vacated by Republican hardliner Norris Cotton, began calling for a new election, Durkin refused to change his position. So Wyman was able to portray himself as the champion of letting the electorate make the choice, with Durkin appearing anxious to take the decision away from the people of New Hampshire. And when the inevitable happened, and the Senate finally decided to call for a special election, Durkin's original image as the spokesman...
EACH IN its peculiar, "problematic" way, these three books portray a narrowly circumscribed portion of a large, complex world. One is no less a catalogue raisonne of human knowledge; another is an improbably tangled set of rules or bylaws; and the third is a sort of portrait gallery, with literally hundreds of faces staring off its pages. For all their diversity--and it is hard to imagine how three literary works could be more generically dissimilar--Courses of Instruction, Rules Relating and the Freshman Register share an odd way of looking at what is, after all, a very real Harvard...
...camera instead of behind for a change-especially since I've said such bad things about actors," chuckled Author Truman Capote, trying to explain why he had signed up for his first movie role ever. Capote, the scriptwriter for Beat the Devil and The Innocents, will portray an eccentric, killer-minded billionaire in a Neil Simon comedy titled Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness and Elsa Lanchester. Has the author of In Cold Blood finally...
Written ten years ago, Sequenza III is similar to many other Berio compositions in its use of "non-musical" effects. In addition to sighing, groaning and coughing at specified moments, their performer must portray carefully indicated emotional attitudes like "accusing," "Whimpering," and "langorous." The result is a tortuous emotional odyssey with no clearly articulated form. Yet there remains a strong subconscious sense of inevitable progression from moment to moment...
...what they thought would preserve their position at the expense of someone else-was more than economically disastrous. It could be a threat against democracy itself. But it's a much harder fight than tightening your belt against a common, identifiable and hated enemy. It was easy to portray Hitler as a hated enemy. Inflation is much more difficult to identify and personalize. The British people made great sacrifices, pretty uniformly spread during the war, but they were never asked to accept a pay limit in the sense that we are now asking them to accept it. The British...