Word: personae
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with male rappers by using sex as a weapon. Eve has found a balance: she's tough enough to run with the big dogs and sensitive enough to hug a small one. Her 1999 debut, Let There Be...Eve--Ruff Ryders' First Lady, was uneven, but it established her persona--sexy but not pornographic, in your face but somewhat introspective. Now Eve feels she has improved. "On my first album I was like, 'Whatever you say,'" she says. "This album I was like, 'Hold up. I'm not doing that.' This is more...
...microphone to former high school classmate and lead singer of the 11-person funk band, Ben Scheuer '04, who demanded that the audience, who had listened to the previous groups intently while sitting, get up to get down. As a new addition to the band, Scheuer's rockstar persona jives well with his company and adds to FinkFankFunk's polished quality. As soon as the band began its cover of Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Aeroplane," it had the audience dancing on their feet...
Dale didn't ask for much else, though. In fact, love him or hate him, as the patriarch of NASCAR racing he was often the one who provided the good luck, protection or confidence. He enjoyed his on-track persona as the Intimidator, and, yes, he liked to push people to their limits--or to the side of the track, if necessary. All the same, he was the standard-bearer for professional drivers. On the day he died, he spoke his last words to the pit crew, telling them to relay advice to his teammates--my brother...
...traditional pop melodiousness. Then there are the lyrics. Take the opening lines to Coldplay's hit single Yellow: "Look at the stars/see how they shine for you." Now compare that with the Radiohead line "I woke up sucking a lemon." And, finally, there's Coldplay's nonthreatening, accessible public persona. "I'm reading a book right now called Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus," says Martin, without a trace of embarrassment. "I'm in my first long-term relationship, and I can't quite work it out." Radiohead's reading list tends more toward Martin Amis and Niall...
...surfaces of puddles that dimly reflect a prone man’s bloodied head. Dog Days, an uncomfortably heavyhanded, if moderately haunting, post-apocalyptic tale, fared more poorly. The film centers around a family’s reaction to the arrival of a man who has taken on the persona and the appearance of a dog. His desperate humiliation of himself for survival is wearily mirrored by the portrait of his host family turning savage in the face of society’s collapse. The cinematography is stunning, though...