Word: purports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both films purport to be more than mere copies of old films by adding new insights to the traditional story-lines they are based on. But as in Greystoke, and now in The Bounty, the movie-makers grandiose visions of creating new epics fall flat, because in reworking old stories, they have lost...
Fried: Well, Richard, when you speak of justice, then that suggests that people should be on a faculty at a major university because a group they purport to represent, and that representation is itself a very troublesome and dubious notion, but a group that they purport to represent is owed, as it were, a certain proportion of seats It's the United Nations conception of a university...
...unless the alliance clarifies the purpose of these missiles, the accomplishment is likely to be transitory, since the basic European attitude toward the missiles is that of a host toward a now unwanted guest whose invitation to dinner it would be too awkward to withdraw. Some prominent Europeans purport to see in the missiles' presence a hidden American design to confine a nuclear war to Europe. Others treat them as one of those peculiar American aberrations that periodically upset the alliance's equilibrium. Too few recognize, and even fewer are willing to admit, that in fact the missiles link...
...reflect deep, far-ranging resentment of the press. Linda Warren of West Hollywood, Calif., wrote to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner: "Journalists are so out of touch with majority values, such as honor, duty and service to country, that they are alienated from the very society that they purport to serve." Duane Bloom of Golden, Colo., argued in a letter to the Denver Post: "The media have frequently misused sensitive and explosive events as opportunities for personal glory and financial gain." Conceded New York Times Editorial Page Editor Max Frankel...
...book--the only secular biography coming out of the Byzantine period--"purports to be the life of the grandfather by the grandson," says the 61-year-old scholar. "I purport it to be the life of the grandfather by a ghost-writer...