Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Ehren Kruger's script doesn't do so well is suspensefully build Faraday's suspicions about his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), and their creepy kids. There's always something eerie about Robbins' geniality--in his screen persona he's never been a guy from whom a sensible person would buy a used car--and almost from the outset you agree with Faraday that he and his kin are surely up to something distinctly antisocial. One-two-three, Faraday acquires the evidence suggesting that Oliver has taken over another man's identity...
Still, her relentlessly bubbly persona may not have the same effect on American record buyers. Wholesome is hot these days--look at Ricky Martin or Britney Spears--but Voice of an Angel may prove a harder sell, consisting as it does of wishy-washy arrangements of hymns and Celtic folk songs, with Andrew Lloyd Webber's easy-listening setting of Pie Jesu thrown in for bad measure. Sony Classical, which is devoting a steadily increasing share of its energies to such lowbrow crossover projects as Michael Bolton's My Secret Passion: The Arias and the Titanic sound track, is promoting...
...simply telling a story but also bringing special insight. Playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Addams Family Values) stirred up a refreshing appraisal of the iconic appeal of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the legacy of her celluloid image instead of the tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon of the civil rights movement...
After this year, both Harvard's physical face and its public persona will have undergone a makeover...
...belying his larger-than-life persona, the editor is straightforward and practical, fully attuned to the information superhighway that will dominate his profession in the 21st century...