Word: personae
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While his screen characters are magnificently nuanced, Crowe seems paralyzed by the thought of integrating his various selves into an honest public persona. "It is strange," says Weir. "Just when you think you see him as a kind of an Aussie simple man--you know, what you see is what you get--there'll be a flash from those eyes, he'll say something penetrating or precise, and you'll remember that he is a savant of some kind. It reminds you how little you know...
Though the album only grazes the surface of her musical persona, Ndegeocello fans will value its attempts to offer various audio snapshots of Me’Shell in different poses. Comfort shows little sign of artistic development and will not win Ndegeocello any new fans. However, it does remind existing fans of the various reasons they loved her in the first place...
...Love Object, a man in love with a co-worker orders a life-like sex doll that bears an uncanny resemblance to his co-worker, therefore ridding himself of the anxiety that prevents him from fostering a relationship with her. The twist is that the doll develops a persona of her own and becomes jealous of her real-life counterpart, making it unclear whether or not the entire affair is simply a fantasy...
...persona and policies of Vice President Al Gore ’69 might have incurred a less acute anti-Americanism than what is fashionable throughout Europe today, but they would have faced it nonetheless. Anti-Americanism endured even the harrowing spectacle of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when some European media began reporting that the Americans clearly had it coming to them while the World Trade Center towers still burned. Among elites, antipathy for all things American is woven into the very history and structure of European societies...
...Regina C. Schwartz ’06, another HSHD member, said she thought Dean displayed one of his most powerful weapons at the speech—his public persona...