Word: portrayal
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Zwick believes that choosing to portray the past through the eyes of an outsider, as is done in both The Last Samurai and Glory—in which the white protagonists become the minority—serves as a useful method of underscoring the contradictions of the time...
...maze inhabited only by mushrooms and bare-branched trees. Feeling her way through the somber dark, she inadvertently makes a piano out of nature, her fingers pressing silent keys into the forest’s air. Yet her attempts seem futile, likening the work to other etchings which portray common folk with sad overtones...
...swimming pool cut to a swashbuckling George W. Bush on “Oprah” and crowds of teenage girls screaming at both parties’ conventions as if in the presence of rock stars. Truly poorly edited clip transitions and the sometimes cloyingly obvious soundtrack portray both parties’ campaigns as playing to the American media and the unassuming voting public rather than informed members of the population. Footage of both the Republican and Democratic national conventions runs to the tune of the “Chicago” showstopper “Razzle Dazzle...
...pretends to snore.] I'm only just thinking of the argument of the film. When you're in your 20s and 30s, love is about being romantic and finding the right person. When you become a family man, you realize that it's not very democratic, the way we portray love. The idea was to say that all of these loves are equally interesting...
...weekend’s presentation of Forte!, sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office for the Arts. However by completely mocking the entire event Schraa fails to offer any constructive criticism and only manages to insult everyone involved, including the student performers. In her attempt to portray Forte! solely as a calculated move by University President Lawrence H. Summers, she speculates about the motives for student participation without actually asking anyone why they performed. Ultimately, she questions the artistic integrity of the performers, whom she derisively refers to as “wannabe artists?...