Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic, however. Tunney already had established himself as firm on law-and-order by urging pay raises for police and taking an occasional ride in a police cruiser. Tunney's opponent in the Democratic primary, George Brown, represented the Democratic left, thereby giving Tunney an opportunity to portray himself as a moderate even before the general election campaign. Murphy, moreover, was handicapped by a whispery voice, the result of an operation for throat cancer...
...also profoundly influenced by what Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, calls "the second life that everyone leads through TV." The worker and his wife constantly see advertised on television the products that he makes, but they often find it hard to buy them. TV programs also portray an alien world. "In the land of the media, whether it is movies, magazines or TV," complains Floyd Smith, president of the International Association of Machinists, "Daddy always goes to the office, not to the factory." And he brings home plenty of money without appearing to sweat hard...
...Charles with a remarkable presence, and John Paul Russo's Newton is a marvelously mousy character who contrasts sharply with the strong willed Newton shown on a slide at the back of the stage. In general, the device of contrasting the actors with the likenesses of the characters they portray is effective and helps occupy the viewer's mind during the long dry stretches. The three mistresses are well done, especially Pamela Walters' Nell Gwynne, who flounces about the stage like a first-rate floozy...
...sketch-for-sketch) from a Poon of several years ago. But the University Gazette takeoff is marvelous; it captures that publication's "optimistic and resolute" hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil tone as the world collapses around it. An imaginative Harvard Register parody attempts to portray the Dean of Freshmen as an old-fashioned aristocrat. Their Courses of Instruction is weak, not even as funny as the real thing. (Did anyone catch German 276, "Eroticism in Jugendstil Literature," described as: "Erotic motifs central to the Jugenstil period [together with death, water, and plant themes]. The ambivalent attitude...
Tristana is the ward of a graying voluptuary, Don Lope (Fernando Key). Lope is an aristocrat, an atheist and a hypocrite-three distinct personalities that Rey manages to portray simultaneously. As his money and his vigor recede, Don Lope pursues the bewildered girl and overtakes her. Once seduced, Tristana is a figure of metastasizing vengeance. When she becomes the mistress of a young artist (Franco Nero), Don Lope shouts in misery, "I prefer tragedy to ridicule . . ." The girl awards him both. Her flight with the artist is ended by a disease that costs her a leg. Convalescing in the house...