Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survived the Eastern front--of his getting into college. Science was not his first passion. At 14 he joined a local youth newspaper and fell hard for the joys of journalism: writing, thinking, exploring. "I loved it," he recalls--until a relative was detained without trial and Grove became persona non grata at the paper. Nearly 40 years later he wrote, "I did not want a profession in which a totally subjective evaluation, easily colored by political considerations, could decide the merits of my work. I ran from writing to science...
Fans of Mr. Bean's TV persona are bound to be dismayed by his disappointing foray into cinema. With his trademark goofy physical antics and rubber-like face, Rowan Atkinson almost--but doesn't quite--save this movie from its dumb comedy paraphernalia...
...expected, the phone rings, and Wallace takes down the instructions for his persona of the evening. Unbeknownst to him, though, he has received the call intended for a government hit man, expected to help with a plan to destabilize the Anglo-Russian detente whose peace treaty is to be signed that evening. What ensues is Hitchcock's "wrong man" scenario, but with humor instead of horror, and Bill Murray instead of Cary Grant...
Brett Egan '99 brings to the role of Pentheus a cool, James Woodsy arrogance that is quite fresh. His rapport with Brown is excellent. But though he's always smouldering, there are moments where his even-voiced, no-eye-contact persona seem better suited to an O'Neill soliloquy than to Euripides. He seems appropriately bewildered in sylvan drag...
Richard Gere in real life is now persona non grata in China. Due to his outspoken support of Tibetan independence following the Chinese invasion of the country, the government continues to disallow his visas and reserves the right to arrest him should he set foot in the country...