Word: persona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire, Paul Simon put on tough radio ads outlining issue after issue in which "Congressman Gephardt" said one thing while "Candidate Gephardt" said another. Michael Dukakis accused Gephardt of being "protectionist" and having 19th century ideas about trade. Even several of Gephardt's former staffers described his new persona as contrived. Don Foley, who quit as his press secretary three months ago, told friends, "Some days he doesn't even know...
...only has Bush recruited a top-flight campaign staff, but he also has, as he put it in an interview last week, "learned that you don't get bogged down in a lot of details or run the campaign yourself." Bush's new take-no-guff political persona is, of course, one of the major surprises of the campaign. Bush's stiff but improving podium personality can be viewed as an ability to learn from earlier mistakes and to patiently absorb the coaching of others...
Beneath his deceptively placid public persona, Lloyd Webber seethes with artistic temperament. In private, some of his acquaintances grumble about his explosive temper, but few dare to confront him, presumably because of his power and influence. While his first wife was still married to him, she was quoted as saying, "He never relaxes. He likes to have something to fuss about. He is exhausting to be with...
...have a day, a night. We have never been a human body. We don't speak like this. What is coming through is not our persona. We don't have a personality you could relate to. We manifest a personality so that you may relate...
Cetkovic, a native of Yugoslavia, was a graduate student in Princeton's physics department before 1983, when the university declared him a persona non gratafor repeatedly teasing a female student,The Associated Pressreported...