Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are many magazine advertisements like it--the sexy woman smoking, the sexy woman buying a car, the sexy woman shaving her legs. Cosmetics, diet aids, jewelry, underwear--all commercial products geared towards a women's audience are represented in the glossy 98-page magazine. And they portray an image of women at once career-oriented and feminine, with flawless bodies and immaculate grooming to reinforce the "correct" female look upon which companies rely to sell products to women...
...would be good to report that Sayles, who likes to portray groups under pressure (Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan), has solved all these issues, but he has not. Based on Eliot Asinof's definitive book of the same name, Eight Men Out lacks either the spacious simplicity of legend or the patient detailing of realism. And Sayles often seems like a man who, trying to stretch a single, gets caught between bases and is desperately trying to evade the rundown...
...efforts to impugn Dukakis' patriotism are part of a larger, time- tested Republican theme: to portray the Democrats as the inheritors of intellectual doubt and malaise, the party that is soft on defense, that perceives America as being on a long, slow decline. The Republicans, by contrast, have successfully cast themselves as the party of stand-tall patriotism and vigilant anti-Communism. As the hawkish Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia put it, "If this election is between George Bush and someone who is more liberal than George McGovern, we win. If it's an election between two competent leaders...
Sheehy does occasionally put her thorough reporting skills to good use, producing some well-written chapters about the so-called "character flaws" of the candidates. Her opening chapters on Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are incredibly damning, but she then settles down to portray Dole, Gore and Dukakis in a largely favorable light...
...publicity barrage choreographed last week by George Bush's strategists was designed to portray his Veep-selection process as dignified and judicious. Much to their satisfaction, that is precisely what front-page stories soon reported: discreet phone calls to 20 candidates, quiet background checks by Washington Lawyer Robert Kimmitt, and no public tryouts. "George Bush knows all these people well," said Campaign Manager Lee Atwater. "We don't have to run a political Gong Show." But the process may soon get bumpy; Bush tends to waffle when faced with conflicting advice because, as an aide puts it, "he hates...