Word: portrayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of the ads are offensive not because they tell lies but because the image they portray is ludicrous. Take, for instance, the television spot run by Texaco this summer. The announcer asks various customers, "How much profit do you think we make on a gallon of gas?" They respond with assurance, "Gee, at least thirty cents or more," or "I don't know, but a lot." The announcer then tells viewers sternly but calmly that many people are under this misconception but that in reality, Texaco only makes about one-and-a-half cents profit per gallon...
...never had the opportunity of playing a woman who thinks and who is mainly, at least at that stage of her life, motivated by ideas. It was wonderful. It's hard if you're an actress to have to portray women who on some level are either neurotic or lacking in something-desperately needing the love of a man, or just plain superficial. Whenever a man-woman relationship comes along, there's always some game playing, and this was a film where there was no game playing. Lillian was relentlessly what she was, you know...
...lodrame à clef has started a vigorous debate about the propriety of taking fictional liberties-including some extreme ones-with painful, important events of recent political history (see Newswatch). Though they watched it with fascination, many viewers felt that Behind Closed Doors trivialized what it piously intended to portray: a sordid and tragic interlude in national politics...
...Ring, Yardley has attempted to portray Lardner largely through his work. He offers comments which are essential to providing an understanding of the era. Also included, however, is a section on Lardner's courtship with his future wife, Ellis. Because Lardner was traveling with the White Sox throughout his courtship, he and Ellis rarely saw one another. They wrote each other constantly, however, and the letters reveal Ring's charm and innocence. At a later point in their relationship, Ring has been looking for an apartment for the soon to be married couple. He writes Ellis, describing a place...
...possible-though unlikely-that public pressure could yet squelch Soap, but even if that happens, the networks are not now going to go clean. It can also be argued that sex, like any other reality, deserves a role in TV entertainments that purport to portray contemporary life. The real trouble with Soap, a series in which characters exchange sexual partners almost as often as they do wisecracks, is that sex is used only for cheap gags. Television, which routinely trivializes so much of experience, should not be permitted to take the fun out of intimacy...