Word: portrayal
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...Chinese bombarded him with warnings against becoming complacent about Soviet armed might, implicitly supporting France's atomic force. Equally close attention has been paid to rallying support in the developing world. At the conference of non-aligned nations in Algiers, the Chinese went to great lengths to portray the Soviet Union as a "dangerous friend." While the diplomatic battle rages on, the most immediate danger still lies along their common 4,000-mile border. The military face-off on the desolate frontier pits the two largest land armies in the world against each other, the more potent of them...
Still, the sense of martial art is conveyed; in its limited way, television has made the game so rich - in every sense of the word - that its players portray villains, heroes and fools all in the same afternoon. Through TV, the sport has become a high ritual of bloodletting. It is also, as always, a morganatic wedding of cold mathematics and glorious physical achievement. It is, as well, a confused and pointless scramble across 100 yards of meaningless turf...
...reaction, the band is rumored to have altered today's halftime show to portray "the face of God," one band member said...
Riggs' own secret weapon is his mouth, and Flamini reports that it produced a constant volley of phrases and clichés as varied as the spins, lobs and trick shots that Bobby uses so well on the court. "A lovable rogue, that's how you should portray me," Riggs told Flamini at one point. "I like that role." Flamini faced the lovable rogue on the tennis court one day, but did not last long; he fell during the warmup, badly twisting his ankle, and spent the rest of the time using a cane to keep up with...
While Jews assailed Superstar, Roman Catholics were mounting an intensive-and remarkably successful -campaign against Maude. At issue were two rerun episodes of the CBS television series that sympathetically portray Maude's decision to have an abortion when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. First aired last fall, the shows were attacked by the Roman Catholic press and hierarchy at the time, but with neither the force nor the effectiveness of the current campaign...