Word: personae
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...modern and responsive, with a compelling history, energy and ambition. If he wins on Oct. 9, will he go the way of his political mentor Whitlam, who crashed in glorious catastrophe? The times don't beckon that kind of mad adventurism, in spite of Latham's "crazy-brave" persona among pundits. "Bite-sized changes in policy are more desirable (and certainly more believable) than big-bang social theories that turn the system upside down," Latham once said. Strip out the imagery of class hatred, the pandering to his constituency, the one-off election bribes and penalties, and what's left...
...politicians into cartoons. Desmond Barrit gives an icy turn as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely. Alex Jennings' George W. Bush cannily suggests the confidence and drive beneath the cowboy persona. And the dramatic high point comes when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (Joe Morton) battles with Nick Sampson's silkily threatening French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin over the all-important right to a second United Nations resolution. If all that sounds more like a news story than...
...other reasons to display his kinder, gentler side. Even Lee's predecessor Goh has said "Singaporeans would like Loong to be more approachable," noting that Lee's "public persona is that of a no-nonsense, uncompromising and tough minister," and adding that such attributes make some fellow citizens "uncomfortable." Those citizens, these days, need to be humored. For Singapore is changing. The nation has been able to build a prosperous society on the back of a deserved reputation as a safe haven for foreign investment and for a clean, effective system of public administration?not always qualities found in abundance...
...America's First Lady. Acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue--speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion and still sound like plain-spoken common sense--a technique he used so persuasively in politics. And acting created the image of a pleasing persona: "Ronald Reagan," a collaboration of the man, the actor he became and the roles he was given to play. Where's the rest of President Reagan? A lot of it is in movies...
...essential part of this style—and Zakrzewski’s worldly persona in general—is her European background and extensive travel she has done for piano, according to Butler...