Word: portrayal
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Mystical Dream. Crane was also a serious writer whose only compulsion was to portray life honestly. At his best, he wrote a bold, uncluttered, staccato prose that, like the young Hemingway's, eventually changed both the rhythm and content of American fiction. At the core of that achievement was The Red Badge of Courage, that wholly intuitive, almost mystical dream of war dredged up from his subconscious when he was only...
This time, however, the plot was rather more turgid. For one thing, if the Administration was anxious to portray U.S. Steel as a model of industrial statesmanship, the company did not care for the role. U.S. Steel made it clear that its price increases fell far short of covering the cost of the 6% labor wage-and-benefit package negotiated last month, warned that other price changes would be coming from time to time. Aiming a lance at the White House, the company said it was "almost, but not quite universally recognized" that steel prices do not cause inflation, insisted...
WARREN, OHIO, Kenley Players. Van Johnson and Sheila MacRae portray a pair of vaudeville performers, The Great Sebastians...
PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon comes to bat again with three short hits. George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton are either hilarious or sentimental as they portray middle-aged couples in sometimes awkward, always amusing predicaments...
Artistic Critique. Despite the defense's attempt to portray Guino as more chiseler than sculptor, the three-man tribunal listened sympathetically to his case. With obvious admiration, Chief Judge Paul Mouzon studied two Guino statuettes displayed in court. And when the courtroom debate finally ended, he asked Paris Art Dealer Alfred Daber to spend up to six months studying the essential question: Do the disputed works bear Guino's "personal stamp, even a modest one," or can they be considered "as belonging entirely to Auguste Renoir in spite of Guino's skill and dexterity"? The final decision...