Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan slips a year or so behind Bush's schedule, so what? The important thing is that the U.S. is fully committed to quick agreement on deep reductions. Bush began talking about conventional arms during the election campaign and now seeks to portray this week's drama as the logical outcome of a "prudent" process. In fact, he made up his mind little more than two weeks before the summit. Even then, Bush moved largely in response to Gorbachev, who had just set forth yet another compelling proposal to Secretary of State James Baker...
...making a decision in the case is not as simple as Baker may portray it. "Someone just hearing about the case could say, 'That's easy--it has to be this,'" or 'It's couldn't possibly be this,'" says Allen. "It's not an easy question...
...your contemporary novels you portray harsh confrontation between black and white. In Tar Baby a character says, "White folks and black folks should not sit down and eat together or do any of those personal things in life." It seems hopeless if we can't bridge the abysses you see between sexes, classes, races...
...intricate craft of moviemaking without losing the moviegoer's fond suspension of disbelief. In its most elaborate attraction, The Great Movie Ride, spectators enter a reproduction of Hollywood's secular cathedral, the Chinese theater, where the Casablanca piano and Dorothy's ruby slippers repose under glass. Computerized mannequins portray such stars as James Cagney, Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. An Alien monster lurches and drools. For all its bustle, the ride refuses to enthrall. Even a beguiling stop in Munchkinland reminds the passengers that, however the technology of Disney rides has improved, the scope has not changed since...
That unanimity crippled efforts by Wright and his allies to portray the report as a partisan Republican attempt to smear a powerful political opponent, and it tilted the odds against the Speaker. Only a few weeks ago, Wright had seemed likely to hold on to his job. Now close observers of Congress, such as lobbyists and Democratic powers outside the legislative chamber, think the best he can expect is to retain the speakership until late in the year, before being pushed into resignation. House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich, who first called for the Wright investigation, went even further, predicting that...