Word: portrayal
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Jack Valenti, the firebrand longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), was never one to mince words. As the movie industry's chief lobbyist, he knew how to portray his business's challenges in dramatic terms. Back in the 1980s, faced with new technology that supposedly threatened the studios' bottom line, Valenti once famously compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler...
...Bomb contributing writer Jeremy P. Galen ’05 said the Harvard counterpart has similar aims but is more inclined to portray subjects...
Throughout the testimony, Lynch attempted to portray the defendant as a liar—calling attention to the fact that the defendant lied to the police on a few occasions and insinuating the defendant was lying again in court...
...biography’s twelve chapters, arranged in roughly chronological order, portray Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family and building a career in the competitive world of Elizabethan theater—all to shed light on the historical context linked to the playwright’s masterpieces...
...defense attempted to portray the jacket—as well as the white Chevy that Colono was sitting in right before the fight—as contaminated because neither of the pieces of evidence were immediately taken into the possession of the police...