Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young songwriter lerry Herman, Hello Dolly! was born and has captured a record breaking 10 Tony Awards. A great deal has changed in the three decades since its birth, but Hello, Dolly! remains an awe-inspiring show because its protagonist, Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, maintains her 1950s "nice girl persona" while underneath being a woman of the '90s, fully in control of the world around...
...director inserts a series of montage images. X-rays dancing on the screen are woven amidst shots of the crazed. Gould writing in his diary the cold statistics of his medical health. Shots of a NASA flights are mixed with various interviews with people who knew Gould's peculiar persona. Not only are these effective diversions a way of introducing the musical variation of the film itself, but also they serve to highlight the odds and ends of the pianist's existence. The facts are here, but they are woven within a whirl of visual images and musical fleetings...
...Bedtime Stories is actually sexier than that of her more wanton songs and videos. Even if a more subdued Madonna is just another pose, it may help her win some of the respect she actually deserves. She is not a great singer, her songs are derivative, her public persona is tawdry. But she can make pretty good records. That's what her dirty little secret really...
...thing about Allen -- his macho-guy persona gets old real fast. All that talk about power drills and Lava soap and walking around the house "looking for things to rewire." Just how universal is this? If anything in my house needs rewiring, I'm on the phone to Rescue...
...alliteration aside, Ben Coughlin epitomizes the calm, motivated team captain, a persona that seems to surface every year for the Harvard men's hockey team...