Word: personae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, Vuke's small-town Midwestern background translates onto the playing surface. He is a gentle giant of sorts whose mellow persona on the ice makes few realize just how good a player he is. He is not one to yell in the pre-game locker room, nor get involved in pointless brawls. He gets the job done casually and quietly...
...scrawler was right. Morrison was a gorgeous creature -- face by Michelangelo, a mouth made for pouts and pleasures, his entire persona an erogenous zone -- with an electrifying stage presence. He saw himself, though, as a Romantic poet trapped in a pop star's body and worked hard at punishing that body with all-life binges of alcohol, drugs and heavy sex. "I'm rich and famous, smart and pretty," he must have mused. "Now how can I screw it up?" He did so by speeding up the physical and mental decay that aging forces on mere mortals. Like his hero...
Although Feldstein's tenure in the Reagan Administration has tended to focus attention on his political persona, many Harvard watchers say that record is unlikely to affect his chances as a possible successor to outgoing President Derek...
...symbolism and persona are not enough to rehabilitate devastated nations, as Aquino has found out. In a land of political victims, she came to power as the most famous victim of Philippine dictator Marcos, who is popularly assumed to have ordered the murder of her husband. Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen...
...sings. The novelty of the men's appearances onstage draws our attention to them, rather then to the women, to whom it rightly belongs. But Giering adds another woman to the typically five-woman cast. This means each actor gets less stage-time, and less opportunity to develop a persona, which is unfortunate. But no one would want to cut any of these talented actors...