Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy School of Government confirm that this once-proud bastion of liberalism is succumbing to the national trend of conservative retrenchment. Almost as if mimicking President Clinton, the training ground for professional bureaucrats and policy junkies has abandoned its liberal foundations in search of a more "inclusive" public persona, or at least one which isn't so unappetizing to the likes of the blubbered blatherer Rush Limbaugh and the prostitute-cum-patriot Oliver North...
...born aristocrats. The face, at age 41, is lean and boyishly handsome, the hair neatly trimmed; there is a casual elegance about his dress. But the dominant features are the eyes: alert, mischievous, wary, playful, like those of an actor savoring the potential of a new role, a fresh persona. Despite the thousands of words written by and about him, Alger Hiss, who died last week at 92, remains one of the most tantalizing figures of the cold war. His 1949 trial and retrial in a Soviet-espionage case personified the explosive political and class conflicts of the time, serving...
Penn was sliding into Morris' job: molding the message, refining the ads, conferring daily with the President. Clintonites couldn't help noticing his taking over not just Morris' responsibilities but his persona as well. Gone was the shambling professor; enter the adviser who brooked no interference, who seemed as confident and quick-tempered as Morris had been. He vetoed a meeting between pollster Stan Greenberg and Clinton. And tensions were building between him and Schoen. Some thought he was excluding Schoen the way Morris had tried to exclude...
DIED. MOREY AMSTERDAM, 80ish, master of the one-liner who brought his cheerfully wisecracking persona from vaudeville to TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show; in Los Angeles...
...foot Browning has fit in with the team well, earning the nickname "Sweet Pea" for her soft-spoken and considerate manner despite her aggressive, vocal soccer persona on the field...