Word: portrayer
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...stark contrast, Wendy's commercials almost always portray characters with a wide diversity of backgrounds. One shows Dave Thomas, the corporation's portly white owner, chatting with an elderly Black man and white woman about his search for interesting foods. Thomas is a real person, and the other two seem like--who would have guessed?--real people in both conversation and manner. Even with the ridiculous dialogue to undermine the effect, the people appear completely genuine...
Film-makers, reporters, journalists and others whose job it is to portray the truth and provide factual information are always confronted with moral dilemmas about to what extent they should allow themselves to get personally involved. Rascoff basically blasts James, Marx and Gilbert for not feeling any morals in the situation of the Agee family blackout...
...clown who laughs on the outside but cries on the inside is an image that appeals irresistibly to the biographers of comedians. Time and again, they portray those with a gift for humor as embittered souls behind the greasepaint. Fortunately, Kathleen Brady avoids this cliche in Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball (Hyperion; 397 pages; $24.95). Without ignoring the darker aspect's of Ball's life, Brady, a former Time reporter whose previous biography was of pioneering muckraker Ida Tarbell, portrays a woman of impressive determination and resilience...
...complaint with the FEC accusing the Christian Coalition and other groups of running "shadow" campaigns for Republican candidates. Coalition spokesmen deny the charges and say they're simply using the same tactics labor unions have long used to mobilize Democrats. "If you're a religious conservative, they try to portray you as some threat to democracy," says Christian Coalition staff member Michael Russell. "All we're seeking is a level playing field." They have achieved that, and then some...
...order for a photograph to convey a human truth, the photographer must first form a human bond with his subject. To portray the troubled youths featured in this week's story about teenage runaways, photographer Steve Liss spent three weeks in Hollywood immersed in their milieu of drugs, prostitution, disease and violence. His day started when theirs did, sometime after noon, when they filtered onto the streets from the abandoned buildings where they had spent the night. "I'd glue myself to a small group, some days shooting picture after picture and others just watching and listening," says Liss. "Gradually...