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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) | 12/27/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Garage Sale Like No Other | 6/26/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Danielle E. Kwatinetz, | Title: Brustein's Demons Bedeviled by Actors | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Claire P. Prestel, | Title: Coffey Says He's the 'Straight Shooter' | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Beyond the Mass Hall Mystique | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

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