Word: proteans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when eight years of self-abnegation as vice president, playing woodenhead second banana and stunt double to a character like Bill Clinton, are followed by a grinding presidential campaign, itself traumatically prolonged, in which the real Gore (whoever that may be - the core Gore) is forced to play the protean part of Boy Scout/statesman/policy wonker/philosopher king/Alpha Male/dynamite Tipper-kisser...
...other words, Shu Qi's moment is at hand?a moment that is only hers to lose. Which is always a possibility, considering her protean personality, which can be captivating or confusing, to moviegoers, friends, acquaintances?even to herself. "I'm not somebody who understands myself very well," she says. "I have become good at letting the superficial projection of Shu Qi become the method. It makes me wonder whether that Shu Qi is really me." If you meet Shu Qi more than once, you get to know a range of different people. One day she'll tell...
...parties is a big deal here, akin to a sex-change operation. But in Vermont, the Jeffords of this week seems little different from last week's--independent, pro-tree, pro-choice, pro-special ed. In the eyes of the country, it's George Bush's identity--consummate professional, protean charmer, reasonable conservative--that has become mottled. Bush campaigned as an adult who would restore not only honor but also professionalism to the White House. No all-night sessions strewn with pizza boxes. He would institute appropriate dress, muted cell phones and meetings that started--and ended--on time...
...parties is a big deal here, akin to a sex-change operation. But in Vermont, the Jeffords of this week seems little different from last week's - independent, pro-tree, pro-choice, pro-special ed. In the eyes of the country, it's George Bush's identity - consummate professional, protean charmer, reasonable conservative - that has become mottled. Bush campaigned as an adult who would restore not only honor but also professionalism to the White House. No all-night sessions strewn with pizza boxes. He would institute appropriate dress, muted cell phones and meetings that started - and ended - on time...
...worldview of Kitano's crime films, where life is to die for and death is a punch line. Could any view be bleaker?or, in the hands of a master showman, more rudely entertaining? For TV's Beat Takeshi and the movies' Takeshi Kitano are halves of the same protean artist. One does anything for a laugh; the other dares the audience not to laugh at the spectacle of man annihilating himself and his species for the sake of a rusty old word like honor...