Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another shows the virtues of the soccer-playing athlete. Another celebrates the participation of boys and girls in the communist youth groups. Another highlights the benefits to be gained from the use of chemicals in both growing vegetables and in winning wars. The likewise appealing promises of efficient transportation portray a nation dedicated to the democratic consumer-citizen...
Needless to say, O'Donnell has difficulties mustering up quite enough sensitivity for Hemingway's character to portray him with any likeness at all. Gone is the rough-edged impetuousness that's best absorbed by reading his works...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: Former presidential candidate George Wallace, whose campaign platform touted the virtues of a racially segregated society in the American south, is protesting a new Spike Lee biopic that portrays the four-term Alabama governor as contemplating suicide following a 1972 assassination attempt. The 77-year-old Wallace insists that he never considered suicide. Having long since made peace with the black Americans he once opposed, he's concerned that Lee's film will unnecessarily dredge up his segregationist past. "I grow a bit weary with people who were always his critics saying he has to spend the rest...
...political future: Can Western-style democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...
...Richardson's biography of Pablo Picasso, published in 1991, took the artist from birth to the brink of a masterpiece. In the second volume, A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House; 500 pages; $55), Richardson begins with the painting that revolutionized 20th century art and goes on to portray the most productive and aesthetically innovative decade of his subject's life. Reading this story is akin to being allowed behind the scenes at an apotheosis...