Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...
...four Pulitzer Prizes and a number of lesser awards. All the President's Men, the how-we-did-it book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, became a bestseller after three weeks in print, and glamorous Robert Redford, who bought the movie rights, will portray Woodward on the screen...
...committee has solicited testimony from within Harvard to map out the opinions of various student, faculty and alumni groups and to be able to accurately portray the problems posed by each option considered...
...year-old Newsweek book review editor. The one thing that must be said in his favor--and it is significant, for many other memorialists fall into the trap--is that he completely avoids sentimentality or indulgence for his 18-year-old self. He makes no attempt to portray his friends or his earlier self as anything other than imperfect individuals. He appears to possess that higher form of egotism that prompted Oliver Cromwell to have himself painted warts...
...equality of opportunity that exists in America is inadvertently illustrated in the photograph intended to portray the idle rich in the Essay "The Delicate Subject of Inequality" [April 15]. The unidentified person lounging in a luxurious swimming pool was so impoverished when he left his native Minnesota to make a career in New York that he had to make the journey on a freight train...