Word: portrayal
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...equality of opportunity that exists in America is inadvertently illustrated in the photograph intended to portray the idle rich in the Essay "The Delicate Subject of Inequality" [April 15]. The unidentified person lounging in a luxurious swimming pool was so impoverished when he left his native Minnesota to make a career in New York that he had to make the journey on a freight train...
...through the holdings of Harvard Uni- versity and come up with a concise sampling of memorabilia would be cause for head scratching under nearly any circumstances. Yet "Introducing Harvard University" an exhibit opening this week in Tokyo's Isetan department store, will try-through a scant 1741tems-to portray one of the nation's oldest and most respected institutions to the Japanese...
...lustrous girl who came riding down his street on a horse, smiling in soft focus. With glistening white teeth and flowing blond hair, she lacked only a tube of Clairol or smile-brightening toothpaste to make the image complete. Simon Rouse and Patrick O'Connell portray, respectively, the factory worker at adolescence and maturity, and have in common only a kind of grumpy indifference that is supposed to pass for alienation. Victoria Tennant, the ragman's daughter, is suitably lubricious. She has the comeliness of a model, although it must be said in some sorrow that she acts...
Produced by WGBH'S Michael Ambrosino, the series was modeled on the BBC's Horizon series. It also benefits from the expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind...
Throughout his questioning of Mitchell, Fleming tried to portray his client as a man far too preoccupied by day-to-day matters to go out of his way to help Vesco. The ploy is part of a defense effort to strike at the heart of the Government case by denying that there was sufficient motivation for Mitchell and Stans to become unduly concerned about Vesco's fate for a mere $200,000, when Stans had already collected much larger sums from other men who expected no favors...