Word: personna
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...Muslim woman leader, Bhutto was almost an iconic figure in the West. But her actual career in office was one of great populist spectacles and little governmental achievement. It was a personna she parlayed. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME in the mid-1990s. "No leader, no dictator could do what I have done...
...velvet number worn while dancing with John Travolta at a White House reception. Or $65,000 for the so-called "Up Yours" short black cocktail dress worn the night Prince Charles admitted his infidelity to TV viewers. For turning the tacky into the touching, Diana still boasts a public personna with which few can compare. Buckingham Palace, take note...
Daniel Gerroll, as the uptight Prideau, turns in an adept, if not particularly memorable, performance. Christopher Martin, as the head demon, Alfredo Archangelo Sandiavolo, adequately invokes a devil's personna. Because of this, the first act flies by quite enjoyably...
Coffey's position paper even ends with a proclamation of his unpolished personna. "I'm not the smoothest talker on the council," he writes, "the best dressed, or the most prolific, but I shoot straight...
...students have come into sufficiently close contact with the president to evaulate his personality and moral values. His private personna is obscured by the headlines that portray him only as a policy maker, the man who interprets injustices and to whom we address our grievances...