Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President, said her campaign would be characterized by a "spirit of openness," a phrase lifted from a spring-semester U.C. newspaper advertisement. Under Gabay's reign, openness would be a welcome change from the last two Council chairs. During his term, Malcolm A. Heinicke '93 seemed shielded by the curtain of an old-boys network--a network from whose auspices the last candidate, Marc D. McKay '94, did nothing to remove himself. Even worse, former chair Michael P. Beys '94 had a practice of turning off reporters' cassette recorders when discussions became heated...
...artists often combined their individual skills as landscape or figure painters to collaborate on a single canvas. The bloody and gory details of The Head of Medusa, a collaboration by Rubens and Snyders, have been considered so frightening that in the past the painting has been exhibited behind a curtain. It's not a pretty picture, but you can decide for yourself...
Four showgirls stride onto the Radio City Music Hall stage to play a fanfare. It is fitting that one of the strumpets with trumpets is chewing gum, for she and her sisters are introducing a supremely brassy babe. Crescendo! Curtain! Giant cotton-swab clouds! And there, radiant on a throne, sits the Arch Angel of Pop and Schlock. The message is clear: Bette Midler has lived up to her self-promotion. She is divine...
...Songs of Faith and Devotion," I was naturally excited; the same kind of excitement which I had during their 1988 and 1990 tour. At the Worcester Centrum, their first U.S. stop, Depeche Mode's first act was a guy, presumably David Gahan, the lead singer, singing behind the curtain. The crowd went wild--not as wild as their previous tours--but definitely wild...
After the first song, the curtain dropped and a thin man with a scruffy beard and Jesus-like hairstyle strutted to the front of the stage in front of a crowd of perhaps a mere 15,000. This guy, who did a great impersonation of a homeless person in appearance, was none other than David Gahan...