Word: personae
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...return. John Paul II spoke about his own experiences every chance he could, about knowing Jews who were deported from his hometown in Poland. But perhaps Benedict, beyond a basic human shyness, also sees his role differently than his predecessor. He doesn't want to impose his own persona on the pontificate. He doesn't want his life's story to represent the Church's. He wants his words to educate as much as inspire. As a colleague who accompanied John Paul on his own first homecoming after his election, remarked yesterday: "Wojtyla was much more the Polish Pope than...
Well, because acting is the pouring of a fictional spirit into an actual body. A star actor like Fiennes gradually becomes the sum of his roles--Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, the Count in The English Patient, Hamlet and Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses...
...tope de las listas de venta. Hoy en d?a posee l?neas de ropa (JLO by Jennifer L?pez y Sweetface) y fragancias (Glow, Still), lo que le report? un total de m?s de $300 millones en ganancias en el 2004. Seg?n la revista Fortune, esto la convirti? en la decimonovena persona m?s rica menor de 40 a?os...
...least typical of the celebrity anchors. You watched Tom Brokaw for warm confidence, Dan Rather for folksy feistiness. But you watched Jennings for the news. That is what his viewers saw in his marathon Sept. 11 coverage--a calm, cool guide who put the story before the persona, who knew that we needed not his emotion but his information, who was anything but weak. --By James Poniewozik
...whose lust for power betrays his best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally unsentimental irony in this small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic. Chinatown 1974; Roman Polanski Dewy...