Word: personae
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...Mary V. Dearborn attempts to find more adequate terms to capture the life of this monumental man in Mailer, her new sweeping biography that examines both Mailer and his times. Dearborn fills the volume with extensive detail in an attempt to capture the underpinnings of the large-than-life persona found in his writings...
...donit look too good for the naive point of view. If we are to accept the position that fm is a sincere publication, one that cares about its content, design, staff and readership, then what up with, say, gossip guy? Despite the construction of GGis sneaky-cool, big-goggled persona, sometimes Guy must rely on the kindness of strangers in getting the goods. Most of the time, these tips are hot, but sometimes he gets his hands on a cold one. It is a constant source of disappointment to us, as well it should be. Another example is our bulging...
While the Corporation has taken some steps toward changing its historically white, male persona, Harper's selection does not necessarily signal a continued commitment to reform. There is still much progress to be made...
...forest green corduroy jacket with an open-necked plaid shirt tucked underneath. When he speaks, his voice has the delicate cadence of a professor singing out the most violent passages of Macbeth with a studied calm. He has, it seems, left his globe-striding, Gulfstream-riding, options-exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal. The only flaw in this picture, frankly, is a fist-size interactive pager that is dancing between Levin's palm and his pocket. The pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses...
...reads Rembrandt's self-portraits in various costumes-as a merchant, as a soldier, for example-as indications of his elusiveness, as if each portrait were meant to conceal rather than reveal its subject. In analysis of one self-portrait, Schama writes that the painter "has disappeared inside his persona," inscrutable beyond the dead dark eyes of the painting. The artist's disguise hides his true self, and the critic is left to speculate. It seems that in this case Schama is grasping (as art historians must) at facts and attitudes that can never be certainly known, constructing and imputing...