Word: portrayer
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...well as many other Asian countries, such a separation is imperative. It is essential that the media in the United States realize that despite the psychological comfort that can be derived from creating an “other,” it is actually in their own interests to portray a balanced picture of China and to help Americans understand a country that is becoming increasingly significant. Apparently, Americans need all the help they...
Rushdie said the part had been hard to play since it required him to portray himself as sneering and arrogant, two traits he normally lacks...
...only strictly literary problem might seem to arise among those authors whose novels describe the lives of the poor. It would not make sense, or be good business, for example, to portray the Joad family traveling west in a sleek eight-cylinder Packard sedan, Tom Joad's diamond Rolex flashing in the Dust Bowl air. The poor do not make good ads..... Or do they? Might be edgy possibilities here, a kind of Walker Evans chic - a good spread in Vanity Fair, page after page of gaunt black-and-white shots, weathered Depression faces, a certain erotic poverty...
Shepard’s script demands that both Lee, Peter Richards ’01, and Austin, Sam McKnight (a Tufts student), know their characters intimately and portray them with a credible sense of familial history. Neither Richards nor McKnight were able to make the relationship believable; the connection needed to pull the audience into the action never evolved...
...Pretty scary stuff. Privatization opponents complain it's scarier than what will actually happen. The report, they charge, is riddled with errors to frighten people into Bush's privatization plan. "It recycles old alarmist arguments that portray the financial shape of Social Security in the worst possible light," says William D. Novelli, executive director of the AARP. Social Security will need fixing, but it is far from being on the brink of financial collapse, argue critics of the commission. The panel's report tries "to convince younger Americans" that Social Security is "falling apart and that a radical solution...