Word: personae
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...silently suffered through the last few days before the execution, I managed to maintain my composed public persona. Which leads me to ask: How many of us are privately nursing our own manias...
...Buffet. But in running a hedge fund for 14 years through 2000, his returns averaged 24% annually, trouncing the Dow's 15% and beating his competition's 22%, reports tracking firm Hedge Fund Research. What interests publishers, however, is not so much his stock-trading prowess as his outsize persona, his view of investing as warfare and the celebrity he has attained as an insider reporting, as he puts it, "from the trenches." In the mid-'90s, Cramer writes, his goal was "be ubiquitous," and hardly a day went by that he wasn't on TV and radio and writing...
...most recognizable in women's dress, but in person he's closer to the Singaporean everyman persona. Dressed in a tan golf shirt and black khakis, he could be a systems analyst on his tea break; only his designer Dolce & Gabbana glasses hint that, unlike much of his core audience, he doesn't go home to a housing block at night. There's little evident ego, and when Neo finds out his interviewer has seen I Not Stupid, he begins firing questions: Was it good? Too local? In the next room, a television is showing the Academy Awards broadcast...
What makes Universe funny and not just wacky is that it uses the qualities that endeared viewers to Richter's Late Night persona--the affable, moon-faced cynic--making the character the kind of sweet but snarky dreamer you would want in the next cubicle. The supporting cast is top-notch, and after so many glamorous workplace sitcoms, it's nice to see one capture the tedium and absurdity of office life. And Universe mostly skips the physical jokes that Hollywood piles on comics who are, shall we say, not the leading-man stereotype (remember that flesh-colored underwear...
Judging by the humble persona the band radiates, it seems that they are in no near danger of allowing success to ruin them, despite the passion of their fans. The Saturday crowd could hardly contain its excitement. In anticipation, the audience chanted “Let’s go Murphy’s, let’s go!” while waiting for their set to begin...