Word: portrayals
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...music soars and the emphasis resounds. We are supposed to "get off" on these segments, and the meaning be damned. When you're kicking out the jams on every scene, there's no room left for comparative perspective. And the filmmakers know full well that the kids they portray as papering their faces in wild adulation, the kids submitting gratefully to the opportunity to stop up their senses and give themselves over to the flashing, ringing Gottleibs--that these kids are the same kids who are paying $3.50 a head, lining up in the parking lot, and filling...
...point is that B.F. Skinner is not the thick-skinned man he tends to portray. According to his own principles, he is the man he was reinforced to be--a man who so desperately tried to control what was "right" for himself that he rejected criticism and avoided understanding why others thought him wrong. But as he writes his autobiography in the early hours of the morning--going over his notebooks and immersing himself in his past--Skinner will either have to fight again all the old battles, or else begin to re-evaluate his ideas and himself in relative...
...that Kissinger first had his own telephone bugged and afterward lied about it. Safire also flatly asserts that Kissinger deviously recorded telephone conversations with newsmen-sometimes belittling his long-suffering foreign affairs adversary, Secretary of State William Rogers-then deliberately altered the transcripts and sent them to Haldeman to portray the resulting stories as wrong...
...snapshot photographer's greatest fault is that in his obsession with the ordinary and commonplace, he often forgets that he must not only portray, but also reveal. To have impact, the photographer must reveal truths about everyday life that we don't normally recognize. Without such revelation, the images are flat, dull and lifeless. Bill Zulpo-Dane's photo-postcards are faithful portrayals of places he has visited, but as photographs, they are excruciatingly dull...
Like many workers grievances. Holcombe's have a specific focus but seem more important for the general malaise they portray. Harvard to him is the powerful, anonymous Him on the other end of the phone, the organization he says portrays him as "a dull witted man full of absurd notions"--while he must seem to Harvard an inexperienced troublemaker, someone who, as Stefani says, needs to "get educated" to the way labor management relations are usually conducted here Holcombe's aggressive, stream-of-grievances. Harvard-as-enemy style of shop stewardship is new to the University, and although Balsam seems...