Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of the ANC?s goodwill has derived from Mandela?s inspirational persona. But the 80-year-old patriarch?s retirement at the pinnacle of his achievement leaves a new generation of leaders to face the complex challenge of correcting the dramatic inequalities of wealth and power bequeathed by apartheid, imbalances that have resulted in growing unemployment and burgeoning violence. Mandela is almost certain to be replaced as president by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, 56, who has effectively run the government since being anointed by Mandela as his successor two years ago. Although the former ANC diplomat?s competence...
Founded by two Brown University graduates in 1985, the company enjoys a funky public persona similar to Fresh Samantha's. And with $50 million in sales for 1998, it has a significant leg up on the juice market...
...grew up alongside a train track. In the 1960s he spotted a hobo who reminded him of Willie Nelson and was moved to write the song Boxcar Willie. After 22 years in the Air Force, where he logged 10,000 hours as a flier, he adopted the hobo persona of stubble and a crumpled...
This is a knowing collection of nine unorthodox stories about Orthodox Jews that should make their author persona non grata in the devout enclaves of his co-religionists. That reaction would be understandable. Englander, once Orthodox himself, tells tales out of shul that include the title story, in which a rabbi grants an unhappy husband permission to visit a prostitute. Yet Englander's apostasy is always affectionate and imaginative. The Gilgul of Park Avenue, for example, offers up a Wall Street Wasp who inexplicably discovers that he has a Jewish soul. The domestic and professional ramifications read like a collaboration...
McMahon has recently become a villainouscharacter in the "drama" of WWF wrestling. Sincetaking on this evil persona, this chant is whatfans greet him with in arenas across the country...