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...make old facts look like contemporary gossip. And he takes wicked pleasure in turning accepted notions about the past upside down. Julian (1964) strikes a blow for paganism and the Roman Emperor who tried to halt the spread of Christianity. Both Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) portray the U.S. founding fathers and their successors in distinctly unheroic postures. Creation opens on a similarly iconoclastic note. Vidal's target this time is the Athens of Pericles, the cradle of Western democracy...
...away. The cast's inexperience makes it even more natural and simple to be inarticulate about things for which there are no words and which glamorous, eloquent action would romanticize. Laura Harrington, as Donna, is a beautiful, unpolished young woman who makes the complex emotions she must portray believable. The sensual awkwardness of her and Michelle Green as Marlene render their strange position more poignant...
...really is." But he finds that B-School students are looking at Exxon "in terms of what challenges and opportunities it presents to them--once they get an understanding of the integrity of the management of Exxon that becomes a moot point." McCreery insists that he attempts to portray an accurate--not idealized--picture of Exxon to interested students. "We try to portray Exxon as it is--that way, we both profit...
...three representatives from Solidarity, three from the official unions and three from the Ministry of Labor and Wages. For 45 minutes, the panel discussed Solidarity's demands, from the five-day week to access to the national media to the farmers' union. The government presumably hoped to portray Solidarity as leading the country toward economic and social ruin, a point that official television commentators have begun to make regularly. If so, the ploy failed. At one point, to show that other countries worked on Saturdays, a government representative ineptly pointed out that French consumers could even buy cars...
Liberals are sure to portray some of the cuts, such as less generous unemployment compensation, as a heartless assault on the members of society who need help the most. Even those programs that seem eminently cuttable are vigorously defended by members of the "iron triangle" of federal spending: Government departments, special interest lobbyists and the staffs of congressional committees that pass on spending plans...