And let his convention serve as an unapologetic tribute to his singular, erratic, untamed persona.
If the singular Abstract Expressionist image comes from the achievement of a wholly unified creative persona, a unity that Krasner could never achieve, then collage could be a way to reflect the experience of a disjunctive, multiple self, a self at once new and old, orderly and dynamic, delicate and aggressive, impulsive and controlled, intellectual and intuitive.
Conductors Play Musical Chairs, In recent years conductors have increasingly become the musical equivalents of professional athletes, parlaying their high-profile public personas and singular skills in a market that is driven by professional excellence and name value.
Though a prolific writer for others, Prince's persona was so singular – and his musical powers so versatile – that it's hard to imagine anyone else singing most of the songs he reserved for himself.
Most of the time, though, you have to be a fanatic news jockey to notice pieces about what could be considered the most singular aspect of the American overseas persona: our "empire of bases" (as Chalmers Johnson used to call it).
When I first saw "Thoroughbreds" at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017 ― back when it was titled "Thoroughbred," singular ― I called it "Heathers" meets "Persona". Having again devoured its slick dark comedy recently, those parallels are even more apparent.
Maybe that fact speaks to a profound impact that was so singular in spite of a multitude of personas and styles of being that Bowie presented.
But there was a singular irony to the Velvet Revolution: none of its dramatis personae set out with an overt political agenda.
Every blue note, every toss of the golden mane captures Ms. Mitchell's singular aura and communicates why a man like Mr. Kelly would fetishize her persona rather than playing just another variation on Joan Crawford.
have moved to a single economic model with a singular goal: to make public, monetize and commodify the "digital you" -- the online persona that is your digital identity in the networked marketplaces we increasingly all inhabit.
