Word: personae
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...primal scream opens the record, and from then on, Jackson emerges as a more affected and effective persona than the "Spiv" of his first two efforts. Those concentrated on a poppy guitar, steady beat, and musical hooks, with songs about women, the working class, and the media. Suddenly, Jackson's oft-avowed affection for reggae has taken over. Graham Maby, one of rock's most melodic and dextrous bassists, assumes center stage, as Jackson acknowledges by allowing him to sing the title track. And Maby holds it well--the bass lines are entrancing, polished, and danceable...
...removal of a cancerous tumor; in Juarez, Mexico. A graduate of a reform school and a Marine brig, McQueen was typecast for his tough roles, whether leading a prison escape (Papillon), masterminding a daring caper (The Thomas Crown Affair) or driving through a breakneck chase (Bullitt). His screen persona exemplified grace under pressure; he raised his fists but never his voice. He revealed last month that he was suffering from mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer...
...view, is to plumb a candidate's background and his knowledge of the facts, the press did that job well with Reagan. He was not so much unknown as too simply perceived. The press had to get past Reagan's aw-shucks actor's persona and also avoid another parody-the straw-filled scarecrow wild man the Carter people created. Reporting gave the voters a plausible portrait of a 9-to-5 executive, only passably informed, given to exaggerated remarks but cautious in action, who wants complicated problems reduced to Reader's Digest brevity, then decides...
Ogden has covered more than 80,000 miles in 27 states with the candidate since January. He observes: "The same fellow who can be very cool and distant in Washington takes on almost a new persona on the campaign trail. He can get very excited." A veteran of the Ford-Dole campaign in 1976, Ogden says that his stint with Carter has been "a great deal more intense. When he does campaign, Carter throws everything into...
...collection of Nabokov's lectures and notes could fully recapture the flavor of his professorial persona, but Lectures on Literature comes as close as one could hope for. Elegantly edited by Fredson Bowers, handsomely printed in an oversized format, it includes discussions of seven classic European and English novels and is extensively illustrated with Nabokov's drawings, diagrams, maps, floor plans and marginal annotations ("Idiot!" he scrawled typically next to one of the many mistranslations that outraged...