Yet, some of his friends and colleagues have cast doubt on the idyllic image of Pistorius portrayed by the press.

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The conversion led him to have second thoughts about the bawdy party-boy image the band portrayed in the 1980s, he told the Boston Globe in 1998.

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During his showbiz days, Bono always portrayed himself as a worse singer than Cher and the object of her putdowns -- an image he sometimes carried over onto the House floor.

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