Word: persona
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...thrilled he is when he falls into them. It's as if Clooney loves O'Reilly because he gives him permission to be an irrational 8-year-old. Maybe that's why anyone loves O'Reilly. But he is also the anti-Clooney, donning a public persona, one that's humorless and incapable of self-effacement. It's as if someone created for Clooney his own Elmer Fudd...
...deception, betrayal and apathy.And yet he remained a star, even at his lowest. The viewer finds the man utterly repugnant for what he has done to those who loved him and to himself. But even in his declining years there is an inexplicable quality to Baker’s persona that demands not only attention, but a perverse love. There is a foul, sour humor in one of Baker’s dope-fueled interviews, where he hesitates almost to the point of forgetfulness while trying to say the name of his son.Sitting between two fawning women in the back...
...from “The Boondocks,” Ice Cube “was so gangsta. I used to have dreams that Ice Cube would come to my house and kill my whole family.” It’s been disheartening to see the Ice Cube persona (if not the man himself) emasculated, sanitized, and dismantled over the last ten years in third-rate family films. After a decent comeback album in 2006, “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It”—the lead single for O’Shea Jackson?...
...with such glee on issues like campaign finance, and partly because he's a liberal media darling. But conservative voters don't always fit neatly into Main Street or Wall Street, theocon or neocon boxes. Some vote with their gut - emoticons? - and McCain's warrior biography and tough-guy persona may trump his voting record...
...Luther Smith, an opeative in the Clinton campaign's field office, concedes that "many people had questions" about the former President's comments. But he shrugs off the suggestion that the remarks could inflict residual damage at the polls. "It did not stick to Hillary. She has her own persona," he says. "At worst, it's a distraction...