Word: portrayal
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...gentle and gradual" reduction you portray comes in my case as a violent and shocking upheaval. My family (six children) has been residing temporarily with relatives in Pennsylvania and New York awaiting overseas orders. My household goods are partly in permanent storage in Denver, partly in temporary storage to be shipped when my family arrives, and partly with the family. My eight-passenger station wagon is here with me, while my wife drives her father's car. My children have been anxiously hoping for their travel orders, which would have brought them over in January. (When he was asked...
...Faustus that this joy and pain, this exaltation and fear of retribution, must be combined to form a character difficult if not impossible to portray on stage. James Straley does it well although he does not achieve the full childish joy Faustus finds in his power nor the full voluptuousness in his passions...
...robes in which Christ is conventionally pictured were used only for traveling, as a sort of combination overcoat and blanket; archaeological research has shown that workingmen on the job wore short trousers and a short tunic-like shirt. To emphasize Christ's manliness, it had been decided to portray him in shorts, said Dr. Koenig, instead of in the traditional robe, which "suggests a feminine softness...
Stage and screen star Bette Davis has definitely agreed to portray the leading role of Madame Rosepettle in a Broadway production of Oh, Dad, Poor Dad . . . by Arthur L. Kopit '59. The recent closing of The World of Carl Sandburg has left Miss Davis free to undertake the job this season...
...wise old man, who as the years and pictures go by acts less and less and looks more and more as though he had been carved out of Mount Rushmore. Instead of Ed Begley in the role of Bryan there is Fredric March, who has somehow been persuaded to portray that unbalanced genius of the spoken word as a low-comedy stooge who at the climax catches a faceful of agnostic...