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...Peruvian leaders as being cartoon characters. I hardly believe that Javier Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of teh United Nations) and writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who will shortly be a visiting professor at Harvard), both current leaders in Peruvian society, fit stereotypes that the author is trying the portray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Trivialize History | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Cicchino said the defense he and Fisher werepreparing would portray the protest as "entirelynon-violent and minimally disruptive." He saidthat the nine students would likely testify, andthat the defense would also call upon "staffmembers" for testimony. He would not rule outincluding faculty in that category...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ad Board Will Try Student Protestors | 4/29/1992 | See Source »

...Zapp is a kind of typical; figure, who has been "identified" with other academics--Leslie Fiedler or Harold Bloom or whatever. And it pleases me, because he is a representative type--and Stanley has rather encouraged the likeness, I think. On the whole, I'm very careful not to portray people--I don't write romans a clef, though Small World is often read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Professor to Critic to Novelist: | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...directors such as spike Lee and John Singleton though, many filmmakers still fail to present a credible, sympathetic portrait of inner city life. Dealing with life, love and moral issues in the ghetto is hard--and even the best offerings often seem cliched, parodies of what they wish to portray...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, | Title: Digging Deep Into the Drug War | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...doesn't even release a title or script to producers before or during filming. And the actors in his films don't get the full script; they only receive the lines for the character they portray...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen: The Life and Work of a Man Who Doesn't Give Interviews | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

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