Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Alexander struggled last week to duck the "liberal" label, another danger lurked: that his smooth, smiling, political persona would remind voters too much of that other former Southern Governor now sitting in the White House. The trademark red-and-black plaid shirt, which seemed fresh 18 years ago, now seems to some voters to be as contrived as some of Alexander's new political positions. No wonder he's the candidate Bill Clinton fears the most...
...impersonation appealing. Apparently they did. Nevertheless, Donahue's brand of me-too feminism has fallen out of favor, though he will leave behind an important legacy in Washington. Not only did Bill Clinton use Donahue's show to reach voters in 1992; with his "I feel your pain" persona, he has even lifted Donahue's shtick. And now, thanks to the tabloids, we can finally imagine what happens when the Donahue New Man meets the Cosmo Girl. Just ask Gennifer Flowers or Paula Jones...
...WALTERS COULD SUM UP THIS year in one word, what would it be? "Busy." In person, she is as gracious and attentive as she is on the tube. But she is also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went...
Such longueurs flaw the book, but not fatally. Sereny has probably captured Speer's aloof, elusive persona as well as any writer could. She also usefully reminds that Hitler, for all the evil he inflicted, was not a cartoon monster but a man with immense charisma and even some charm. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth has a rightful place in any library of writings about the Third Reich...
DIED. ORVILLE REDENBACHER, 88, popcorn potentate; in Coronado, California. His persona on TV spots made him an icon of, well, pure corn: the crisp bow tie, the Alfalfa-style hair, the good-natured geekiness. But beneath this hayseed hucksterism, Orville Redenbacher was the Luther Burbank of popcorn. The decades he devoted to the staple food of double features produced a gourmet hybrid that exploded to twice the size and twice the sales of its competitors...