Word: personae
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...dedication to his team along with his excellent work ethic and vibrant personality, two traits that his teammates appreciated when naming him this year’s LP.Depending on whom you ask, the acronym, LP, has one of two meanings: the Lightweight Protocol and the Lightweight Persona. These two distinct interpretations fittingly parallel the duality of Benkreira’s post.The LP serves to maintain a culture of discipline in the boathouse, while also creating a lighthearted environment that relieves some of the stress of the team’s grueling training program.“I make sure it?...
...Casting Lau and Leung made for a superstar pairing equal, in Hong Kong, to DiCaprio and Damon - or, since the Hong Kong actors are about a decade older than the Americans, to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Leung's persona, of restrained brooding and worldly-wise resignation, has won him five Hong Kong Film Awards as Best Actor, two more as Supporting Actor, as well as Cannes' actor prize for In the Mood. Lau, whose retinue of teen fans follows him everywhere (he's also the most successful Cantopop singer of his generation), has been a lucrative movie commodity...
Frustration leads to overreaction. Patrick Cole, Australia's High Commissioner to Solomon Islands, was declared persona non grata by the government of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Sept. 12. Sogavare's charge was that Cole was interfering in local politics and too frequently consulting opposition politicians. Canberra had argued strongly against a proposed inquiry into this year's riots in Honiara. Two M.P.s aligned with the government are in jail facing charges relating to the violence, which razed Chinatown. According to Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Cole's expulsion was outrageous; he smells a rat. "The real motive...
...perky naiveté, utters one social faux pas after another. "The best time to have a baby," she says, "is when you're a black teenager." Then she makes some apologetic qualifier that gets her pretty mouth into even bigger trouble. Of course, this Sarah Silverman is a stage persona, a one-shtick pony that could grate if not for her zazz and nervy aplomb. "I don't care if you think I'm racist," her alter egotist says defiantly. "I just want you to think I'm thin...
Perhaps the mothers also grieve in different ways because of their contrasting relationships with their sons. Afeni Shakur was a black power--era radical who fell into drug addiction in the 1980s. Out of Tupac's difficult childhood, he crafted a tortured persona as a man both blessed and cursed. Throughout his career, he invoked the pride and shame he felt about his mother, making hits out of confessionals like Dear Mama and Keep Ya Head...