Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GEORGE Herbert Walker Bush must take more drastic steps if he wants to convince the American electorate of his common man image. He needs to answer jabs from Democratic presidential candidates with real changes in his lifestyle, persona and attitude. When candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says that "Bush's idea of solving a domestic problem is to fire the maid and yell at the butler," the sitting president shouldn't be vetoing unemployment benefits or remodeling the oval office. He should be portraying himself as sympathetic to--and part of--the middle class...
...most texts (which used to be called books), narrator can also be a tricky word because the third-person voice doesn't necessarily have to be the one telling the story all the time. Speaker is a good substitute. Persona works in poems. But when there are a lot of characters, it's best to refer to everyone by name, but only if you make sure to explain how the naming of people functions in the text...
...which include Macmillan Publishers and the London-based Daily Mirror as well as printing plants, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv and several professional soccer teams, are joined by a complex web of interlocking connections, all masterminded by Maxwell and Maxwell alone. "You've lost the force majeure, the single persona that held it all together," says John Reidy, a New York City media analyst at Smith Barney...
Weinberg's acting also breathes life into Raymond's persona. He alternates smoothly between boy and man, subtly shifting body language and tone of voice. And his endurance--an hour and 45 minutes worth--is remarkable...
...mentioned), or on other aspects of her personal life. She knows that Hollywood movies are all about the marketing of emotion, and that it is difficult for actors, the onscreen vessels of emotion, to keep their lives sensible and their sensations private. Nonetheless, Foster is determined to separate public persona from private person...