Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Heath's Conservatives, who like to portray themselves as the party of law and order best equipped to calm a crisis-ridden nation, began the campaign amid signs of disarray. Two senior members of the Tory shadow cabinet have managed to undermine Heath's already weakened party leadership by differing with him on key is sues. Sir Keith Joseph, the shadow Home Secretary, led off by asserting that the answer to Britain's raging inflation lies primarily in manipulating the nation's money supply, not in imposing the kind of wage-price controls that...
...committee has solicited testimony from within Harvard to map out the opinions of various student, faculty and alumni groups and to be able to portray accurately the problems posed by each option considered...
Amnesty for Nixon would weaken America's ability to protect itself from corrupt officials. If he is guilty he should be convicted of his crimes, not only to provide a deterrent example and emphasize that no man is above the law, but also so that historians can never portray him as a martyr hounded out of office by political enemies...
...Beckett's considerable sympathy for the plight of humankind, his plays show little pity for the people who would undertake to produce them. Almost without exception, his theater pieces require magnificent acting and brilliant directorial interpretation for them to work half well on the stage. With little action to portray and only a few clues to Beckett's true intentions, a theater company, particularly one that's not thoroughly professional, sets itself up for tremendous risks when it tries to give life to the playwright's philosophical musings...
These are not your ordinary next-door neighbors. Williams has made them larger-than-life, like the characters in ancient Greek drama, and has tried, in his words, to portray the "fiercely charged interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis." Furthermore, despite the play's three acts the action is absolutely continuous, being confined to two and a half hours on the evening of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. Not only does the work satisfy Aristotle's suggestions but it also meticulously observes the three unities, of time, place and action so dear...