Word: persona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process, Sills has shed her image as America's sweetheart prima donna for a new persona as an impresario. "I have learned a lot," she says with pride. "I am taking a course in lighting, I can look at a flat design and know if it will come into 3-D. My singers know they will be well lit and not forced to wear unbecoming costumes. The backstage crew calls me boss. Beverly Sills superstar is gone...
...Assad swirled like so many dust devils around Damascus, the capital. Last week the intrigue blossomed anew. Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, in an interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel, declared that Assad's younger brother Rifaat, one of Syria's three Vice Presidents, is "persona non grata forever." If Rifaat had not gone into exile in Geneva in June, Tlas added, "the army would have struck...
George F. Will, the most talented of the lot, is going through a change of persona more than a change of views in his second career as tart questioner on ABC'S This Week with David Brinkley (where he is billed as plain George Will). "When you accept an institutional identification," he says, "that does change you." Still a Tory, or a "Scoop Jackson Republican," he is no longer so chummy with Reagan; his continued advocacy of higher taxes irritates Reagan, and Will says he gets invited to the White House "not that much" any more. Given television...
Reversibility is crucial. One wants to be native only for a time. The true holiday requires metamorphosis, but, even more important, return to normality. Return is what distinguishes excursion from exile. If the change of persona becomes irreversible-if the Mardi Gras mask becomes permanently, grotesquely stuck-holiday turns to horror. One must be able to go home...
...real ending consists of the next five minutes, with Prince and nothing else at the limelight--an appropriate conclusion for a movie that, in spite of occasional digression, is an extension of Prince's persona...