Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only stereotyped outlines for the characters, leaving any detail or fleshing-out to the cast-members--each of whom plays several different roles. But as stereotypes go, U.S.A.'s emerge acceptably. Although few of the players succeed in developing their roles beyond superficial characterization, most of the stereotypes they portray are themselves enjoyable...
Some new ads do portray women as serious people, Kilbourne said, "but usually they just take the old stereotype and put a briefcase in her hand. Then we feel doubly guilty, because not only is she beautiful, but she has a high-paying...
...stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths to portray the entire 17-year period before the Cultural Revolution as a kind of halcyon era, when life was normal and the old veteran bureaucrats were in charge...
Probably the single most important concept that the convention has dealt with is representation. The new student government simply must be representative of student opinion to effectively portray them and help shape University policy...
Robert Coles has found a way at least to begin, if possible, to understand how such statements can be uttered. He studies and talks to their children, and the result is a book called Privileged Ones, in which he attempts to portray the children of the well-off and the rich, and the ones who are running this country. At the same time Coles has published the fourth volume of the Children of Crisis series, Eskimos, Chicanos and Indians, a book he believes the "narcissism of the rich" will overshadow. And, as he leaves his University Health Services office...