Word: personae
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There is a widespread assumption that if Salter didn't create the persona that is the modern McCain, he certainly gave it an airbrushing in the books he wrote with the Senator. Salter disputes this. "McCain was a fully formed human being when I met him," Salter explains. "It's his story. It's not some story that I gave him." It is, however, a story Salter passionately defends, endlessly firing off e-mails from his BlackBerry and penning letters to the editors of major publications. But the two men aren't always of one mind. Salter objected strongly...
...erudition and cultivation from snobby, rich tenants. She disdains their élitist notions of class and social order, but she knows the residents would be outraged at discovering what a deep grasp the hired help has of art and learning. So Renée masks her intellect behind the persona expected of her lowly station...
...Rove has also been busy refashioning his public persona. A regular commentator for Fox News and an occasional columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, Rove is the undisputed chairman of the Republican commentariat, delivering what his friend and former Clinton administration lawyer Lanny Davis calls "balanced, intelligent and sometimes even-handed" analysis from his lofty media perches...
Qalibaf's relatively hip appearance and smiling persona seem part of an effort to craft an image that appeals to Iran's youthful electorate. "The majority of our people are tired of extremisms and exaggerations of the rightist and leftist factions," Qalibaf told TIME. "The world is going through constant change. Just because we've had an Islamic revolution doesn't mean we don't learn from the good works of other parts of the world." Indeed, in the 2005 election, he won the support of reformist voters who had become disillusioned with the failure of their own leaders...
...artist who has jointly exhibited with Banksy, told the paper that he shared a Bristol flat with Gunningham in 1998. Asked by the Mail whether Gunningham was Banksy, Egan reportedly replied, "Well, he wasn't then." Gunningham, whose middle-class upbringing bears little resemblance to Banksy's renegade persona, has vanished. (See pictures of Banksy's secret art show...