Word: persona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who have read any of Warner's eight volumes of short stories or six volumes of poetry or seven novels will not be deceived by her prim persona. In her first novel, Lolly Willowes (1926), she wrote with quiet fierceness of a "genteel spinster" who chooses "to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to you by others," even if the price be a compact with the devil...
...some students of Gaddafi's elusive persona, it is no great surprise that he would send hit teams in pursuit of a powerful American President who had spurned him. "He feels justified in using terrorism and is able to justify his excesses because of the deprivations of his people during his youth," says a U.S. Government official. "He feels very menaced, and he will strike out at a superpower. It is difficult for a person like that to see the results of his actions. It is all mixed up with his image of himself as a victim, someone persecuted...
Inured as people are to news of athletic improprieties, they are equally unconcerned about the gambling tone that pervades even the best newspapers' sports sections: full of odds, point spreads and columns on how to bet. Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder furnishes television with both a gambling expertise and persona...
...quite a persona. Whether the name is Kluckhorn, Perlmutter, or Ginsberg, the same character resurfaces. He is a semi-suave ectomorph who will chase any nubile starlet, whether it requires a descent into a sea of polyester leisure suits at the Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana...
Perelman died two years ago, so until some biographer turns him into academic chopped liver, it is going to be hard to tell how much of the Perelman persona was Perelman himself. Until then, the only thing to go on is the 45-page autobiographical fragment "The Hindsight Saga," in the posthumous opus The Last Laugh which Perelman's publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman...