Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes me truly sad to see a poster which seems to have no other purpose than to portray me, being a white male, as an ignorant, bigoted, racist. We're all on the same team here. I realize race relations have been adversarial in the past, but the solution is not to direct society's animosity toward a different faction of the population. All of our efforts to create a society truly free from racism are for nought as long as this adversarial system of race relations persists. GREGORY S. NOVAK '00 March...
...Iraqi government tried to portray Kamel as a lone rogue who was himself concealing records; they thus led U.N. investigators to a Kamel-owned chicken farm, where they found more than a million pages of documents on Iraq's banned weapons programs. "The chicken-farm documents gave us a clear indication of how much we had missed," says UNSCOM deputy executive chairman Charles Duelfer...
...individuals, more than the collective forces of society, determine the course of human events. Luce's philosophy manifested itself most clearly on TIME's cover, with its hallmark portraits of people in the news. Over the years TIME has commissioned more and more distinguished artists of the day to portray its cover subjects. The practice has yielded a unique collection of more than 1,800 pieces in a dazzling range of styles and media. Appropriately for this anniversary, 75 of them will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington on March 20 and then after four months...
White House aides may portray Starr as a leaker and a bully, but he doesn't really have to answer to anyone; he just has to build a case. And it may have been a calculated gamble he was making. "He's trying to lock in all the other witnesses and figure out all the other stuff they know," says a former prosecutor familiar with the case. "That way, he can question Monica. If you're a little bit dubious about the trustworthiness of your star witness, it's not a bad strategy to lock down everything she might...
...became all the more vital to portray her as a vulnerable victim of an ugly power struggle. Ginsburg may not be a criminal lawyer, but he knows how to do p.r. The bearded, besweatered, avuncular lawyer, looking every inch the indignant father figure, gave a string of carefully chosen television interviews. He directed his fire both at Starr and the President for "savaging" a "child." "My client...is at the vortex of a storm involving three of the most powerful people in the United States: President Clinton, Vernon Jordan and Kenneth Starr...