Yet, some of his friends and colleagues have cast doubt on the idyllic image of Pistorius portrayed by the press.

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The conversion led him to have second thoughts about the bawdy party-boy image the band portrayed in the 1980s, he told the Boston Globe in 1998.

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The thing that motivated me to do the Million Man March was the image of young black men that was portrayed around the world showing black men with colorful bandanas on their head and shotguns in their hand.

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During his showbiz days, Bono always portrayed himself as a worse singer than Cher and the object of her putdowns -- an image he sometimes carried over onto the House floor.

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