Police officials said the calls typically were punctuated with alarming real-time portrayals of what was supposedly taking place inside the victim's home.
Prepping for award shows can be a weeklong marathon in dread, resulting in a one-time portrayal of improbable beauty.
In her column, Ms. Landro wrote: "I believe that The Seattle Times' portrayal of events, while it certainly made for a dramatic tale, is fundamentally false.
This immediacy is reflected in the real-time portrayal of her experience, although a surfeit of detail sometimes threatens to muffle the story's power: the day-to-day panic, the bartering with some unknown god for a few more days of life, the well-intentioned fools who offer empty condolences.
"No fair reading of this report can support the Times' portrayal," Soss wrote in an expanded version of his argument, which was published in Jacobin on Monday.
At the same time, those portrayals have lead to criticisms that Mr. Perry perpetuates racial stereotypes.
The Motion Picture Association in May 2007 said it would for the first time consider portrayals of smoking alongside sex and violence in assessing the suitability of movies for young viewers.
At the same time, media portrayals and popular culture have left cybersecurity with a horrible branding problem.
Playing neither a sexy ingenue nor a frumpy "Rosanne" type, Ms. Cusack - along with her co-stars, Jessica Hecht and Donna Murphy, who play her best friends - is attempting to plow some new middle ground in prime time's portrayal of women.
At the same time, the portrayal of Madonna as "porno queen object" is deconstructed by the escape at the end of the video.
