Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mariah's (there's no way we're calling her "Carey") new album Butterfly alights on record stores everywhere this week. As usual, Butterfly has its share of both jazzy scores and snoozy bores, but the overwhelming effect of the album is to portray an artist and a woman who has no idea where she stands or who she is: musically, personally, you name it. Mariah, don't you want to be somebody? You've tried on so many different hats...
Many very modern students have positive religious views which embrace both modesty and deep respect for one's colleagues. To portray these students as judging, or having contempt for their "modern" classmates is an error. Zachary L. Shrier...
...hard to tell, though, how the scene will really come off, since today Casella is working without the puppet he uses to portray Timon: days and nights of (literally) being attached to it have hurt his back. Taymor isn't the kind of director merely to sew up an actor in an animal costume. In the show, Casella stands behind the 5-ft.-tall Timon model, which he manipulates with rods and wires. Others in the cast wear elaborate headpieces representing the animals they are portraying. Indeed, Taymor's entire production is highly stylized and impressionistic. A rushing waterfall...
...clearly out of his depth. Traylor signed Jones to a since-terminated contract giving him one-third of any money she might make through radio, movie or TV contracts. That has been one-third of nothing, but the move made it easy for the White House to portray Jones and her lawyer as moneygrubbers...
...images are as stunning as they are ancient. Painted or engraved on rock surfaces hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of years ago, they portray hunters armed with bows and arrows in hot pursuit of antelopes, lanky men straddling galloping horses, and exquisitely drawn charioteers urging their steeds on. They depict herds of elephants, loping giraffes, elegantly antlered impala and mythical creatures drawn from the imagination of artists long since in their grave...