Word: personae
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After Obara's arrest in connection with Lucie's disappearance, a sharper image of his personal life emerged. In contrast to his occluded public persona, Obara's private obsessions are delineated in excruciating detail. He wrote journals and dictated audio diaries on cassette tapes starting in the early 1970s. Police have leaked some of Obara's most incriminating entries to Japanese reporters like Mamoru Kadowaki of the Weekly Shincho magazine. According to Kadowaki one of Obara's most troubling entries, presented in vaguely poetic form, includes the lines, "Women are only good for sex. I will lie to them...
...however, is a fierce desire to sell himself abroad as a modernizer. Haiti certainly needs it. The country suffers 80% unemployment, and Colombian drug traffickers have begun using the island as a transit lounge. So, inside Tabarre, his heavily guarded Port-au-Prince residence, he is showing a new persona: nouveau Jean-Bertrand, a genial statesman-cum-Chamber of Commerce President. "Life is a daily dialectical movement for me," says the ex-priest in a rare interview with TIME. "I pay attention to the global economy now, and I have to be realistic. Haiti needs investors...
...over the past two years—the way it’s grown from 500 words to 1500 words per week, the way he talks more about himself and his family than he does about pop culture, the way that everything is an ironic reference to his own persona. It’s all a big joke—the idea that in commenting on celebrities, he got carried away and convinced himself that he was a celebrity. And people believed...
...that I took from Shakespeare more or less stayed the same, but it’s a smooth transition from my own vaguely Elizabethan lines written in verse to the lines that are clearly Shakespeare. But the lead player required a completely new character, because he has no real persona in the play. It sort of evolved from that point on. On the commuter train to Middleboro, I realized I could frame the whole story around the first person who historically recorded Hamlet’s story, a man by the name of Saxo the Grammarian. It was basically...
Alas, the rookies fare less well, standing as they do in the shadow of their vastly more experienced co-stars. Pardue’s name is more interesting than his screen persona; despite some shamelessly contrived moments meant to mature his character, he comes off as a whiny, spoiled brat whose success on the track owes more to the scriptwriter’s pen than any personal talent. His every appearance drains energy from the picture. A relentlessly self-pitying and selfish child, his Bly garners little sympathy; one gets the feeling the audience roots for him only...