Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committees, the students decided their assigned country's global interests on a wide range of issues, including arms trade, refugee status, child labor, prostitution, the succession of states, and Somalia. The students are supposed to stay true to their country's persona and history in making their decisions...
...think a lot of women have this experience of having two personae, the polite good girl who doesn't say much in class and the writing persona, which I think is the true one and which can be very opinionated and crusading. Writing is a way of speaking honestly without being interrupted...
...latest musical incarnation, Madonna is Dita, the dominatrix persona and sex hostess of both Sex and Erotica. She intones over thumpy house beats on most of the album, which should keep DJ's mixing and remixing for months. In the title track Dita asks, "If I take you from behind/Push myself into your mind/When you least expect it/Will you try and reject it." The naughty little form/context twist is that at standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into...
...Izzy's increased role on tour. Some of the best of Guns' as-yet-unfamiliar new material featured Stradlin's gravelly vocals ("Dust N' Bones") and his more bluesy style of rock n' roll ("Bad Obsession"). As a foil to Rose's artistic and personal extremism, Stradlin's introverted persona and laid-back rhythm and blues added some depth and a sense of mystery to the highly controversial, out-of-control band...
...know, when we look at ourselves in the mirror, we have a certain persona that we have concocted for ourselves. And we try to fix our hair, and dress, and have a certain facial expression that fits that model that we've cooked up for ourselves. Then, we need to use various ways of imposing that image of ourselves on other people. And it's a kind of marketing. It's a kind of personal marketing. We tend to be careful in the way we organize the stories we tell each other the stories that we tell each other...