Word: personae
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...free the hostages carries the danger of simply entrenching the problem. Mindful of the dangers, U.N. diplomats are attempting to isolate rebel leader Foday Sankoh from his comrades, suggesting they'll negotiate with other rebel leaders but that Sankoh's betrayal of last year's agreement makes him persona non grata. Ruling Sankoh out of the equation may help disorganize the rebels, but this war is about resources rather than politics, and as long as there are diamonds to be mined and powerful regional interests coveting them, there'll be guerrilla commanders willing to fight any attempts to restore government...
...what, in the end, is this book? As fiction, it could simply be a musing: a sensuous, aging intellectual persona, thoroughly modern, dying of AIDS in a post-modern age. There is plenty about the mercurial politics of elite universities to sustain a deeper narrative about modernist men professing a fragmenting discipline...
After the showing, audience members noted how closely Allen's real life persona resembled the characters he usually acts...
...familiar American scene transitions when Bananas (Catherine Gowl '02), Artie's mentally sick wife, emerges in her nightgown and lives up to her nickname with animal imitations and childlike babbles. From this moment on, the play's central axis shifts away from Artie to revolve around Bananas' zany persona. Even in her silent separation from much of the forward-moving dialogue, this production of Blue Leaves effectively focuses the audience's attention on Bananas, attesting to the artful staging and directing of Jerry Ruiz '00 and, most importantly, the captivating stage presence of Catherine Gowl...
...large part to its "Hot Boyz"-inspired use of bass and distortion (the lyrics are about as clichd as they come). The second track too-this one with both Aaliyah and DMX-might make its way into a club, somewhere during a full set dedicated to DMX's canine persona. C+ -Franklin J. Leonard...