Word: portrayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike, however, caught the papers off guard. Memphis, as they boasted perhaps too often, had never had a serious racial disturbance. Partly because of this, the papers were rattled when it finally occurred. At first they tried to portray it as simply a labor issue, though the fact that 95% of the sanitationmen are Negroes obviously gave it a racial complexion. They covered the strike with reasonable thoroughness but tended to play up acts of violence. They regularly attacked King, saying he had no business in Memphis. They ignored Negro militants leading the strike; for a while, the Commercial Appeal...
...surrealists agreed that the time had come to substitute the logic of the unconscious for the deliberate illogic of Dada, but only half of the movement, including Dali, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy, used conventional Renaissance oil techniques and perspective to portray the fantasy world of dreams and hallucination. Helped by Dali's genius for self-publicity, it was this half of the movement that became synonymous with surrealism...
...last-minute turnabout was the result of a campaign by B.U. students to portray Gordon, who is one of Boston's biggest landowners, as a profiteer in slum property. The campus newspaper raked up a 1933 real-estate-rackets charge against Gordon (he was never convicted); student leaders signed a letter to Boston newspapers claiming that his dealings were "exploitive and discriminatory." Actually, Gordon's real estate holdings, which were once extensive in slum neighborhoods, now consist mostly of profitable downtown office buildings; only a few of the 100 or so apartments he owns are in the city...
Condon's hero is Tynan Bryson, a Welsh movie star-an obvious fiction, since there is no such thing as a Welsh movie star. Tyson has had only one failure in his 46 pictures (a Hungarian director persuaded him to portray Thomas Jefferson as Richard Nixon might have played him). And he has finally achieved his and every other actor's dream: his contract calls for him to receive exactly 100% of the total gross of his next production...
...TESTAMENT Noah's Liberty Ship What did history's most famous boat look like? Though many religious scholars doubt the story of Noah and the Flood, there has been no lack of efforts to depict his ark. Medieval artists tended to portray it as a big houseboat...