Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dirty Harry and a passel of creepy cowboys, Eastwood carried himself with the slow, wily grace of the living dead. Idealism had been blasted out of him -- only a grim irony stirred inside. Unforgiven, his Oscar winner and $100 million smash, was not a valedictory to the Clint persona; it was the latest verse in a career-long elegy to the faded American Dream...
...soul lost in the midst of a dehumanizing modern era. Johnny Cash sings in this original U2 song: "I went out walking through streets paved with gold/Lifted some stones/Saw the skin and bones/Of a city without a soul." His earthy, gruff vocals express the world-weariness of his wandering persona perfectly. Yet they contrast oddly with the drudging synthesizer beat, to convey a sense of disjointedness...
...TIME/CNN poll completed last week explains the eagerness of many candidates to cuddle with Perot. Since February his favorable rating has declined, from 58% then to 51% now, probably because his harsh attacks on Clinton's policies and persona make him seem too partisan to some people. But Perot's numbers remain strong compared with Clinton's wan ratings. Many voters are aware of Perot's foibles -- wobbling on issues and overreacting to criticism -- but they like his anti-Washington message anyway. As a potential presidential candidate, Perot has actually pulled ahead of Clinton. In the survey, 46% said they...
Somehow Pat Nixon never quite captured the fancy of the American public. The cameras that caught the angular planes of her face missed the soft contours of her heart. Her Republican, cloth-coat persona was no match for the glamour of her predecessors: Jacqueline Kennedy, international trendsetter, and Lady Bird Johnson, poetic beautifier of highways. But most likely it was because Pat Nixon stood by her man in the best Tammy Wynette fashion. And from his ambitious first days in politics to the catastrophic final days, her man could not shake the visceral distrust of the public and the media...
...gross miscasting, but he pulls it off well. There's a hidden edge of steel to all of his genial suggestions to eat Quaker Oats after all. Holly Hunter as Tammy, the secretary/lover of a private detective killed while digging into the firm is a delight--she goes from persona to persona with razor-sharp acting and timing...