Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book hanging out or going up to British Columbia to discover that a forest has disappeared, or gawking at the resident AIDS patient at the mall. When Tyler finally gets the story moving by describing his find-himself trip to Europe, it is only to add another persona to the cast: the Parisian Stephanie. The other youngsters hate her because she acts coolly above the fray of life, which is something they try very hard at but fail to do. Stephanie strolls the plot along by moving Tyler to Hollywood, but once she disappears, the story stalls again...
...Montagnier knows his virus. He knows firsthand that it alters its genetic code as often as Madonna changes her persona, and thus could easily hide from a blood test. And when perplexed scientists turned to him for answers to the unsettling questions raised in Amsterdam, he delivered his views with the stoic self-assurance that has become his trademark...
...Rodham Clinton is the exception. Twice, she has expressed her resentment of stereotypical expectations of female subordination. And each time, her motivations have been ignored and she has been miscast as the one who promotes insensitive stereotypes. Her response to this has been to tone down her independent-woman persona and become more like June Cleaver than Murphy Brown...
Like Michael Dukakis, who was defeated by an ex-footballer after his first term as Governor of Massachusetts, Clinton set about recasting his political persona. But where Dukakis was given a light cosmetic coating, Clinton returned to his most authentic self -- the gregarious schmoozer and good ole boy. Arkansas had the least-developed single-party system of all those states studied by V.O. Key Jr. It lacked even factions within the one party. Personality alone formed shifting clots of political alliance...
...understand Bill Clinton better, TIME contributor Garry Wills decided to look past the Democratic presidential nominee's national persona and examine him in the context of the idiosyncratic state he has governed for 12 years. Wills, a distinguished historian and journalist, made two circuits of Arkansas, driving from Hope in the south through Hot Springs and Little Rock to Fayetteville in the north. He talked not only to Clinton but also to the candidate's friends, relatives and neighbors, and he soaked up the landscape that produced the man. "I think the rest of the country has trouble understanding Southerners...