Word: portrayals
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...wants to portray the relation of the Old World and the New," Donald L. Fanger, a professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, noted adding that Fuentes is extremely well-versed in European literature, especially French fiction...
Arafat responded with a campaign of persuasion, urging the rebels to return peaceably to their ranks. Then when Gaddafi gave a speech denouncing Fatah's "reactionary leaders," Arafat lashed out at him for his mischief making and, more important, was able to portray the mutiny as a result of external interference. Gaddafi has been none too popular with the Palestinian leadership since last summer, when he told Arafat that P.L.O. fighters should commit suicide rather than leave Beirut...
...every day that a raving beauty gets to play a ravening crow. So Actress-Photographer Candice Bergen, 37, hopped at the chance to portray the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay in a three-hour CBS epic due this fall called Arthur the King, based on the Round Table legend. "I was relieved not to play the phlegmatic princess," says Bergen. "I like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell...
...outspoken support of a police department they considered to be brutal to blacks and insensitive to citizens' rights. To soften his combative image during the current campaign, Rizzo signed up for some public relations cosmetology. First he hired New York Media Consultant David Sawyer, who attempted unsuccessfully to portray his barrel-chested client as wiser and mellower. Then Sawyer's replacement, Baltimore Consultant Robert Goodman, promised to show "not the old Rizzo or the new Rizzo, but the real Rizzo." Shortly after, Rizzo endorsed Bernard Epton, Washington's Republican opponent in Chicago, compared Civil Rights Leader Jesse...
...stone an annual gift of the senior class to the university, will this year portray the university emblem on a rectangular blocks of limestone. An athlete throwing a discus will be superimposed on the center of the emblem...