Word: portrayer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
...terribly important to all the characters. The President approvingly decides that Dr. Christian has "guts. Scads of guts." Skeptics may argue that such a remark is no funnier than those that appear in many best sellers. They underestimate McCullough's mastery of sublime inanity. What other writer would somberly portray a heroine "feeling her purpose trickle away between her legs like a slow haemorrhage"? Where else could one find a statement both so unconsciously offensive and grammatically inept as "A devout Jew but nonetheless the most Christian of gentlemen, his sins were purely sins of omission and due to thoughtlessness...
...Does promiscuity debase the spirit? How does one balance momentary, if intense, pleasure against sustaining a lifelong commitment? Is happy monogamy the ideal state of man? But Kramer and Hoffman are dramatists as much as propagandists. What makes As Is and Normal Heart so deeply affecting is that they portray anguish and doom in individual human terms and enable audiences of every sexual inclination to grasp a common bond of suffering and mortality. Oddly, yet persuasively on the stage, both plays are also very funny...
...outcry, Reagan admitted, has been the sharpest personal criticism he has received since the 1966 election in California when there was an attempt to portray him as anti-Semitic. "And I must say, the Jewish community of California rose to my support because they knew very much different and they knew of many things that I had done that revealed the lie of that. But this, yes, has been very painful, because no one has said oftener than I have that we must never forget and that the Holocaust must always be remembered with the knowledge that it must never...
Katey Leff plays the mother, Judith Bliss. A former actress, Judith has never forgotten her glory years on the stage, nor will she let anyone else forget. An actress has to have skill to portray bad acting well. Whether or not this is strictly true in this case, Leff does a marvelous job of being overdramatic in her every motions and word, flailing her arms in dramatic poses and pouring out emotion over trivialities...