Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Role-playing programs give them a crash course. At Hunterdon, students' faces are instantly aged with cornstarch and makeup. Next the disabilities are laid on: yellow goggles smeared with Vaseline distort vision, wax plugs dampen hearing, gloves and splints cripple fingers, and peas inside shoes impair walking. Then the ersatz invalids are asked to perform common tasks: purchasing medication at the pharmacy, undressing for X rays, filling out a Medicare form and, most humiliating, using the bathroom...
Doubtless, the extremism of the Society's political stances reflects its largely Palestinian makeup. Unfortunately, the homogeneity of Society members' political views--rabidly Pan-Arab with nostalgic memories of the golden days of Nasser--has hampered the Society from fulfilling the aims of its founders: to expose the "rich, cultural heritage of the Arab world," as well as to serve the needs of all Arabs at Harvard...
...foibles, however, he and his readers learned about pre-war Jewish life in Poland. By the end of Maus I, Spiegelman had described more than just the facts about Vladek's life--the reader could see his factory, expropriated by the Nazis; sense his daily life and the makeup of his surroundings; and know his habits and his manner of speech...
...Mack is back, but this time he's not home alone. He's an allergy- prone 11-year-old whose best friend, Vada (Anna Chlumsky), is a hypochondriac who lives in a funeral parlor. Dan Aykroyd, Vada's widowed, mortician father, learns about love and the living from his makeup artist, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin), this sweet saga is both hilarious and heartrending. Don't forget the Kleenex...
...Makeup: Eugene F. Coyle (Chief); Alison E. Ruffley, Leonard Schulman...