To reverse the impression about its jobs, Wal-Mart is broadcasting three ads nationwide that portray it as a great place to work.
But it was bitterly attacked by others that portrayed it as both grossly insufficient and undermining the United Nations process, enshrined in a global, fully ratified 1992 treaty.
To stand before a painted mammoth in Pech-Merle is an overwhelming encounter both with an extinct mammal and the mind that portrayed it.
The Copenhagen Accord, as the document is titled, was embraced by some environmental groups that portrayed it as the best first step along an extraordinarily daunting decades-long path toward a world of ample energy without greenhouse pollution.
"He told Don Davis to tell Clive Davis, 'Hell no!' " Part of the reason David refused was because he was writing a rock opera about death that portrayed it in a positive light, Bobby Sr .said.
But when lawmakers tried to apply the concept to the far more pervasive problem of carbon dioxide emissions, it ran into gale-force opposition from the oil industry, conservative groups that portrayed it as an economy-killing tax and lawmakers terrified that it would become a bonanza for Wall Street traders and Enron-style manipulators.
Mr. Iannucci, whose previous credits include "The Thick of It," a 2005 British series that sent up that country's government, said he spent many months researching Washington and its denizens for "In the Loop," but never found a film or television show that portrayed it in an honest, unglamorous way.
I can think of barely a handful of films that make that country look like a charming and delightful place to live – and any number that portray it as a vast, lawless no-go zone in which people subsist in a state of crazed, feral desperation.
The company, which has historically been willing to withstand subscriber anger, has been buffeted by advertising from YES that portrayed it as unnecessarily depriving Yankees fans of their games, and advertising from DirecTV to switch to satellite to receive YES. Had YES accepted Cablevision's offer, it would have had to redo its existing deals, which would have most likely reduced its revenues.
