Word: persona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale graduation from the purported perspective of "a flinty old friend . . . from the country" attending the graduation of a grandniece. He devised a similar character, and fictitious dialogue, to report a speech at New York University by Nobel-Prizewinning Poet Czeslaw Milosz. Reid's explanation: using a fictional persona helped him overcome writer's block. Personae, such as "our man Stanley," and pseudonyms, such as the railroad buff "E.M. Frimbo," are common devices in "Talk...
...Impaler, a performer with a wide appeal but a narrow range, whose talent could ignite television sketches but was quickly being tapped out in movies. He did not have the generative comic gifts of an Albert Brooks, say, or an Andy Kaufman, but he had a gruff, tough persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing a set with his samurai sword or gobbling up the scenery in impersonations that ran the gamut from Kissinger to Brando to Jake Blues...
...community is thought to have raised objections to Astorga's appointment. But a flat refusal has its risks. Some State Department officers argue that the nomination ought to go through rather than give the Sandinistas a chance to retaliate by declaring newly appointed Ambassador to Nicaragua Harry Bergold persona non grata...
...probably had the wrong man," says Henkel, "but he wanted fresh blood in the process-he didn't want the campaign to be run like the others. "Henkel adds that Hart, a naturally shy man, was also "anxious to have someone who wouldn't try to change his public persona...
DIED. William Demarest, 91, vaudevillian and screen actor best known as the cantankerous, sweet-hearted, sourpussed Uncle Charley from 1965 to 1972 on TV's My Three Sons; apparently of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He developed his sputtering, comic tough-guy persona in more than 100 films, notably including half a dozen Preston Sturges comedies...