Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plaster death mask was taken soon after the royal person died. Sometimes the mask was painted in lifelike colors; sometimes carvers made a faithful wooden copy. A rough body of straw or wood clothed in robes of state was added...
Royal Stroke. When the painted faces were properly cleaned, they proved to be meticulously accurate. Anne of Denmark (queen of James I) has blue veins and a pimple on her cheek. Edward III (d. 1377) is an original death mask and possibly the oldest European example, since the well-known death mask of Dante (d. 1321) may be a fake. When Edward III was in his last illness, his mistress, Alice Ferrers, ran off with the rings from his fingers. The shock of this betrayal brought on the stroke that finished him off. Neurologists consulted by Howgrave-Graham agreed that...
...addition, its four roadside bus clinics took care of 33,817 villagers. Widely recognized as one of the best in India, Vellore Hospital has topflight specialists from four continents and dispenses the latest wonder drugs. But to many a patient, lying scared as she awaits the anesthetist's mask, the most comforting feature is the gentle but firmly reassuring handclasp of Dr. Scudder, the woman who decided to follow family tradition...
Babe stalks the fairway with a conscious sense of theater. She flips king-size cigarettes into the air and catches them nonchalantly in her mouth, then lights her match with her fingernail. Her hawkish, sun-toughened face is frozen for the most part in a thin-lipped mask, but she knows when to let go a wisecrack. When one of her tremendous drives sails out of bounds, she turns to the crowd and explains, "I hit it straight but it went crooked...
Worries of this kind, say the Baltimore researchers, can make childbirth more difficult if they are not treated properly. And, they are confident, the Read method is not the right way to treat them. On the contrary, it can mask them and make them worse...