Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pudgy, middle-aged chap (Rudolf Hrušinski) who works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
...with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily presents the doctor as a tintype of the ruddy regimental; Neville dryly displays the detective as a standard Victorian eccentric, an intellectual who beneath a mask of pedantry conceals a sad little secret: he is really just a middle-class boy who never quite made Eton and never quite got over...
...Chicago's Greek-American community, locally known as the Bush. For a fee, Matsoukas counsels mortals on such mundane affairs as impotence, wrestling, enuresis and masturbation. He also speaks exclusively in the heroic style; everyone in the book does. "Some say you are dead, that all this is mask and charade," says Matsoukas, addressing God. "I will tell you what I think has happened. Heaven has become for you a shadowed cavern of emptiness and longing. Your glory has departed. Man have mercy...
...That horrible old lady!" she gasps as she staggers toward the nearest exit. The guards charge into the ladies room prepared to corner a criminal, but all they find is a grey wig and a rubber mask and their own foolish faces in the lavatory mirror...
...sophomores were especially good--big Dan Martell and Bob Johnson. Martell, playing with a hockey goalie's mask because he had been clawed in the face during a practice, was hitting the floor and grabbing more than his share of rebounds. Johnson made some fancy plays on offense and defense, indicating he can make the team without having played freshman ball. Johnson was out of action last year with a bone cyst in his right ankle, but he worked out faithfully at Hemenway with his PT-seeking classmates...