Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...describing Solzhenitsyn's efforts to publish his work at home and his attempts to avoid pseudo-legal personal penalties for having been published abroad. This job is the only one that they tackle successfully. They also make an inadequate effort to analyze Solzhenitsyn's literary achievement and to portray his personality...
...worth getting angry about is the implication behind it: that movies made for black audiences have to be, or can easily be, so casually and contemptuously awful. Such movies are not even made with the same care or craft as the 90-minute features cranked out for television. They portray all black men as diddy-boppers or street-corner hustlers, all white men as drooling, craven criminals, and women of any complexion as whimpering sex machines. They lack the energy and dignity of good action melodrama. Super Fly and movies like it demean the audiences they are made...
...heavy hand of alist realism". Rather there is careful attention to realistic detail, as in the first long shot of the old country house--with its peeling paint, creaking doors and evanescent charm. Even the interjection of pictures of denuded forest lands and starving children are in context. They portray the stark contrasts between the idle gentry and the destitute peasantry which underly Chekhov's sense of a passing...
...nominee's advisers see his specific proposals as part of an attempt to respond to the same kind of discontent and desire for change that Alabama Governor George Wallace so bitingly articulated but did not satisfy. Thus, a basic thrust of the McGovern campaign will be to portray Nixon as the champion of bigness-citing, for example, the Administration's coziness with ITT officials-and as the most prominent representative of a political system that voters want to change. With the Administration depicted as deceptive, secretive and unwilling to "level with the people," the McGovern advisers feel that...
...follow the Cinema Novo percepts. Going on the premise that politics is reality, writer-director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade has left all the heavy analysis behind and concentrated on a picaresque comedy that has about as much relevance as, say, the Marx Brothers--who did, to be sure, portray their share of dirty capitalists, insatiable lovers, and corrupt millionaires. The villain of Macunaima is just such a dirty capitalist, a fat greedy man who is eventually eaten alive in his own cannibal-capitalist swimming pool human soup when Macunaima, the hero, pushes him in. However, Macunaima himself is hardly poor...