The works question an American role once portrayed as benevolent and now cast as oppressive.

The better newspapers are portraying the drug quagmire the way they once portrayed the quagmire in Vietnam.

Nader compared Dimitri to the Dynasty character he once portrayed, Dex Dexter.

Blackmore once portrayed at the time their artistic characteristics as "Mike Oldfield plus Enya".

A woman's younger years, once portrayed as a carefree roundelay of cheer, are now presented in far more sober fashion.

However, he was once illegally portrayed taking a shower in a TV commercial for a Brazilian showerhead manufacturer.

The characters taken from familiar films are not meant to suggest the actors who once portrayed them.

Thomas Greene was the company's major comedian; he was reputed to have once portrayed a baboon onstage.

That has lowered their credit ratings and crimped their ability to invest in the networks they once portrayed as the way of the future.

And the regional Bell telephone companies, once portrayed as the most daunting threat to cable, are turning their gaze away from video to long-distance phone service.