Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greenhouse-gas emissions that is strongly supported by Vice President Al Gore. Moreover, some politicians fall back on the uncertainty argument, asserting that the enactment of costly preventive measures now, before all the evidence is in, would invite economic disaster. Still others use the debate as an opportunity to portray Democratic presidential contender Gore, author of the environmental tract Earth in the Balance and the U.S. representative at Kyoto, as an environmental extremist...
...three characters that emerge between play-episodes are just as humorous, if also as two-dimensional, as cartoon characters. The players call each other by their real names--Erik, Will and Waka ("real" is relative on and off the stage)--and portray Shakespearean actors in the same way that Bugs Bunny portrays a rabbit: They play caricatures, not characters. The "actors" are shy, ironic, angst-ridden, occasionally obnoxious and grossly human. Their closest Shakespearean analogues are the Rude Mechanics in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...joke). You had to be 18 to see these films, but so what? Then the kids took over the box office. Hollywood learned how to eroticize violence and forgot how to dramatize eroticism. The new hot hands were directors (Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese) who didn't care to portray sexual romance. Eros died...
...Harvard Secular Society kicked off its year on November 2 with a debate entitled "Skeptics vs. 'The X-Files.'" Society members argued that shows like "The X-Files" portray science in a bad light while endorsing the supernatural--which society members, of course, lend no credibility...
...knows too well. Each character brings personal demons into the struggle to hunt down individual night-mares. Yet somehow, these two tortured souls managed to connect, and in a dark and painful novel, this friendship holds the only promise of hope and redemption. Among horrible acts of violence that portray humanity as empty and meaningless, their relationship offers a sort of salvation, a reason for mankind to fight against the cruel, soulless monsters who kidnapped Bob's little girl...