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...their candidates seem technophobic or out of touch. Patrick Ruffini, a G.O.P. online political strategist, wrote on his blog: "It's stuff like this that will set the G.O.P. back an election cycle or more on the Internet." Democratic consultants are rubbing their hands together at being able to portray their general election rivals as being - as one put it to me - "afraid of snowmen" or simply ignorant of techonologies that many Americans use on a daily basis. Indeed, Governor Romney today, in the context of evincing concern over Internet predators, supported that suspicion: "YouTube looked to see if they...
...course, Close, from Fatal Attraction to Dangerous Liaisons, is no stranger to problematic women. The key to her performances is that they are informed by, but not overwhelmed by, how gender has shaped the characters' lives. "In order to portray someone, you have to find a common humanity with them," she says. "The Marquise de Merteuil [in Liaisons] invented herself to survive in a world where women were used and discarded on a daily basis." Even in The Closer, a cop show strongly driven by the crime of the week, Brenda's loyalty and drive for justice are intangibly...
Tuesday's ceremony also turned out to be a public-relations boost for the Russian government as it tries to portray the country's ties with the United States as alive and well. At least four state-owned television channels were on hand to record the proceedings, which were broadcast on the evening news in Moscow...
...accusations toward me, and I deeply resent that my tax dollars are being used by his staff to point figures at me,” says Winters, who lost his bid for a council seat in four 1990s elections. “If anything, Ken Reeves is trying to portray himself as somehow the victim of the campaign of a local newspaper. If he can successfully convey this mistruth to others, it only helps him politically...
...things that one is always concerned about at Harvard is misrepresentation or opportunism of individuals who would like to portray themselves as more connected to the University than they actually are,” Fineberg says. “That was one of the background concerns of the roles of these centers not overstating what they were and what they represented...