Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forcibly removing any President from office. This is being done through a public relations campaign designed to highlight the President's achievements in office and the sanctity of the presidency itself. At the same time the effort seeks to obfuscate and obscure Nixon's own Watergate role and portray impeachment as a partisan movement spearheaded by political enemies. At a minimum, the aim is to build enough pressure on normally friendly Senators to prevent conviction on any House-approved impeachment charge...
...passages in Gulag about the Russian P.O.W.s are the first accounts of their tragic fate to come out of the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities have used these chapters to portray the author as a Nazi traitor. Most of the official attacks on the book have included falsified quotations purporting to show that Solzhenitsyn called General Vlasov a "hero" and "mocked the sacrifices made by the Soviet people during...
...find the analogy far-fetched, look at any recent history of American Indians. Picture yourself as an Indian watching a Wayne film. What will the next portray? The Trail of Tears? The distribution of smallpox-infected blankets? The massacre at My Lai? Sand Creek? Wounded Knee...
Former U.S. Prosecutor George Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, thinks that "it's part of a general decline in respect for authority." The recent spate of movies, books and TV shows that portray police fallibility and worse has also damaged policemen as witnesses. "They just no longer have the image of the untarnished good guy," says Chicago Judge Richard Fitzgerald...
...policy. Instead, they are engaged in exploring the varied and manifold historical responses of the people at the bottom to their own condition, the political acts and cultural expressions of the "losers" in history. Escaping the mute parochialism and indifference of many historians, they realize that causes which they portray and analyze that were lost in Europe and in the United States may yet be won in Latin America, Africa or Asia. The most valuable chapters in The Seduction of the Spirit stand as one of the first attempts to carry these his torians' Marxian insights and intentions into...