Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anesthesia has advanced far beyond the ether mask and morphine stage of 20 years ago. Today, during critical operations, e.g., inside the heart, as many as eight different painkillers may be administered to ease the patient's lot and the surgeon's task. Even in minor surgery, drugs are used lavishly to prevent discomfort. But even the best of the new techniques carry their own hazards. Last week two top Boston anesthesia experts, Henry K. Beecher and Donald Todd, laid down evidence that modern anesthesia is killing not only pain but is still killing a shockingly high percentage...
...paved the way to the conviction of British Physicists Klaus Fuchs and Allan Nunn May, the Rosenbergs and half a dozen others who stole allied atomic secrets for the Kremlin. Except for acting as a government witness in numerous spy trials, Gouzenko has since shown himself only with a mask over his head, and lived with his wife and two children somewhere near Toronto under a "cover" name known to few save the Canadian Mounties, who until recently guarded him round-the-clock. In his solitude Gouzenko spent four years fashioning a 629-page novel, The Fall of a Titan...
...radio cried that Diaz was simply the "mask behind which the Communists are now operating." He warned of tougher air raids to come. If the peacemakers failed, the war could yet be bloody...
Actress McCambridge. a talented player with long experience in radio and TV (she won a supporting-actress Oscar in All the King's Men), achieves a believable, blank-mask expression of insanity. The other performers seem bewildered most of the time by the direction of Nicholas Ray (Knock on Any Door, Flying Leathernecks), who works with the misguided brilliance of a myopic Pygmalion. Almost every separate part of the picture comes to life in one way or another, but none quite fits into the whole. At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next...
...Mask plunges abruptly into a nightmare evocation of Parisian gaiety, with pleasure seekers as dazed as opium eaters thronging a ballroom that resounds to the thunder of Gay Nineties music. When a doll-like male dancer collapses amid the frenzy, he is hustled belowstairs to a cubbyhole as though there could be no reminder of human ills at the frolic. A reluctant doctor (Claude Dauphin) is pulled away from a pliant girl to attend the patient and discovers that, under an ingenious, dandified mask, the sick man is an aging wreck. Dauphin takes the broken dancer home and listens reflectively...