Word: personae
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...Like virtually every Hong Kong singer, Tse made films. In his debut, Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, he revealed a complex screen persona, seductive and lonely, under that peekaboo mop of hair. He impressed critics as a gangster's prot?g? in Metade Fumaca and as the tyro gunman in Tsui Hark's Time and Tide. They called him a natural?not the next Andy Lau but the one and only Nicholas...
When people, especially those in power, talk too much about divine guidance and moral certainty, they risk being accused of hypocrisy. The President's "regular guy" persona contrasts sharply with his past business dealings and his positions on labor, health care, privacy and tax cuts, to mention a few. So Bush likes to have clear choices and wants to make clean decisions. Don't we all? If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, the world doesn't present choices like a dinner menu, and many decisions have unintended consequences. SUSAN CALHOUN Tucson, Ariz...
...contract may give O'Donnell editorial control, but G & J has veto power, which it apparently felt compelled to use when the star it had hitched its magazine to seemed to be turning into someone else. In the past several months, Rosie has shed her friendly suburban TV persona, revealed that she is a lesbian and restyled her hair in a way not altogether flattering. O'Donnell also reportedly tried to fire an editor days after she had been appointed by the publisher. After O'Donnell quit, G & J's chief marketing officer said the company had been "caught...
...private there were assigned roles as well. Her mother was often the one who needed mothering. When Hilary attended a bereavement camp, the only place where she felt understood, even there she adopted a distinct persona: she was the most eloquent about her grief--"definitely top of the class," says camp director Lynne Hughes--and all the counselors longed to have her in their healing group. "I think it feels a little like being schizophrenic or being a character in a play who's totally different from you," Hilary says. "You have all these faces. There's one you show...
...want the presidency for himself? For his family? The standard answer, given here, is that, moved by Vietnam and urban unrest, he grew to want it for all of us. But his transformation feels mechanical, dictated by the needs of the movie. Roache does capture R.F.K.'s brash outer persona rather than do a mere impersonation. But, as for Kennedy's inner life, after two hours, has anybody here seen our old friend Bobby? Hardly...