Word: portrayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line between art and life is given psychological--as well as sociological--significance as Nancy Ross, the bitchy aging actress, wonders at the extent to which she has merged with the character of Lorna Charles. By the end, it seems as though the actors and the characters they portray on screen/stage are not so distinct after all, that the latter are largely excuses for the former to act out latent dimensions of their own personalities...
...deceptive, I did not ignore people's problems, and I was not turned into some kind of mechanical, cold, uncaring, sub-human manipulator just my memorizing a set of talks to more clearly describe the product. And I very much resent attempts by The Crimson to portray people who work for Southwestern in any of those ways; it is just not true. Christopher Savage...
...case, King claims the council's action was not a spontaneous event precipitated by the testimony of a few prominent scientists, as he says the media tended to portray it. According to King, it was at least partly the result of long term efforts of various organizations, including SftP, to build a movement forcing science to serve the people rather than what he perceives to be the present dominating interests of a scientific elite--motivated by the prospect of Nobel prizes--and a corporate-governmental complex geared toward profit, imperialism, and maintenance of the status...
...their efforts to portray the Communists as red devils, the DC employed not only the politics of the coverup, but the politics of terror. Recent investigations have indicated that the escalating series of unexplained bombings and attacks (beginning in late 1969--suspiciously soon after the strikes--with the explosion in Piazza Fontana in Milan, including bombings of trains in the summer of 1974, and most recently, the killing of a state prosecutor in Genoa) all of which the government attributed to extremist groups of the left, may actually have been planned by the Italian secret service...
...idea that a reactor meltdown could release a cloud of radioactivity that, in the words of one pamphlet, "could contaminate hundreds of square miles, forcing you to abandon your home, bankrupting your employer and giving thousands of children thyroid cancers." Toward the end, the anti-nuclear forces tried to portray the vote as a classic confrontation between ordinary citizens and big business, which, they charged, was spending millions to defeat the proposition...