Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double the world rate, the countries south of the border have built thousands of large-scale apartment projects, office buildings, stadiums, university halls and government buildings. In the major cities, new, skyscrapered skylines rise amidst one-and two-century-old slum clusters and rows of two-story stores. To portray a decade of tumultuous growth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying a photographic exhibit (assembled by Architecture Historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock) of 49 major building projects in ten Latin American countries and Puerto Rico. The display demonstrates that Latin American architects have not only developed a dramatic...
Congratulations on "Seven Wonders of the U.S." in the Oct. 31 News in Pictures. They are really more than wonders, they are working wonders and portray the implementation of science through engineering for the service of mankind...
...editorial page is hardly the place for longwinded attempts beginning: "From Machiavelli's Italy to Hitler's Germany, double standards of morality have permitted national leaders to commit acts completely contradictory to their religious and moral beliefs." Or, "The highest role of the artist in society is to portray its values...
...unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate fest. The Lineup (starring Tom Tully and Warner Anderson) gets its material from the San Francisco police files, and that is where last week's story of an actor with...
Kenneth More, however, makes up for everything with a brilliant performance. His problem was to portray a man who is everything he seems to be, who knows no lapse between the thought and the act, who wears his entire psyche on his sleeve. From the first fine flap of his dewlaps ("Hey, give us a shot of those gorgeous green orbs") to his endearing little growl ("Who wants to grow up in the world as it is?"), to the burp he releases exquisitely in the middle of a word, More is the perfect type of the easygoing dog that everybody...