Unexpectedly, but entirely convincingly, she describes him as an actor-painter, constantly assuming roles as he surveys himself, endlessly mutable but always recognisable, as actors must be.
The project marks yet another example where technology companies are assuming roles traditionally left to public utilities or the government, and until now undersea cables have traditionally been laid by telecommunications incumbents.
In the midst of her prolific film and television career she occasionally returned to the stage, assuming roles in the Broadway musicals Very Warm for May, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (1939), and Let's Face It, by Cole Porter (1941).
The growing mobility of the average consumer has allowed businesses to spring up and grow by assuming roles traditionally reserved for banks.
They were out on the fringes of health care, assuming roles in companies that did not even realize they needed a nurse.
According to Lamb (2000), the interest in the father's role in the lives of children has increased and that men have responded to the changes within U.S. society by assuming roles of nurturing caregivers and active teachers of their children.
