Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...
Pushkin, who wanted to be a Byron and died in a bourgeois duel, uncovered Russia's deepest melancholy in Boris Godunov, its worst superficialities in Eugene One gin. Tolstoy need not have written the great length of War & Peace to portray the best Russia; his typical common Russian, the soldier Karatasv, stands "an unfathomable, rounded-off and everlasting personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth." Glinka's Ruslan and Liudmila sang the gay folk tunes; Tchaikovsky's Pathetique caught in single chords all the national sadness...
TIME cannot undertake to portray the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as shimmering dream children in order to spare the feelings of incurable romantics...
Alvin York, now 53, weighing 275 but still looking mighty fit, made three stipulations before surrendering to Holly wood: 1) that Gary Cooper impersonate him; 2) that no oomphy (or any other kind of grunt) girl portray his wife; 3) that the picture be an honest account. Result: one of the cinema's most memorable screen biographies...
...first reported effect of the law was to keep 20th Century-Fox from adding more bullfight scenes to Blood and Sand to please Mexicans. But the object of the law was something else. If other Latin-American countries follow Mexico's lead, producers will have to portray Latin Americans as Latin Americans like to be portrayed...