Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jansen has a different persona, however, in Olympic competition. It was etched into the minds of fans on Valentine's Day in 1988 when his older sister Jane died of cancer. Later that day in Calgary, full of grief but nonetheless the gold-medal favorite in the 500 m, he fell. Millions of hearts cleared a place for Jansen that evening and kept him there after he fell again in the 1,000-m race...
...acting in the "Getaway" is not merely mediocre--it's just plain bad. This is probably because the script is so overwrought with cliches that the criminals are laughable. Benyon's badguy persona is so unconvincing that every once in a while I expected Benyon to fall out of character, turn to the audience and say "Just kidding." But this is not "Wayne's World"--the "Getaway's is not pretending to be stupid--so that never actually happens. Instead, Benyon's body just gets chucked in a well by his bodyguards, after they find him quite dead...
Back in Cambridge, they shed their snowgear for the tamer trappings of college life. Here, away from the slopes, they take on the persona of the motivated Harvard student, demonstrating their talents in more sedate pursuits...
...explored nearly every medium -- painting, photography and printmaking. Here he discusses his development, training and inspirations at relaxed length. A generous selection of milestone paintings and drawings illustrates the scope of his visual assault on the commercial symbolism of the middle class, and Hockney's private vision and public persona...
...casting of Williams as an unemployed voice-over artist is obviously meant to draw on the publicity he gained as the voice of the Genie in Disney's "Aladdin." In deciding on a persona for the housekeeping job Miranda advertises, he and his make up-wizard brother (Harvey Fierstein) run through a list of accents and outfits in a ridiculous procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role...