Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pinkish cream, molded layers of face putty across his high cheekbones and along his nose. The makeup had nothing to do with his role in the U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Stag King. It is a ritual that Shirley, 31, performs before every opera, a mask to disguise one of his real-life characteristics-that he is a Negro...
...Stag King, a kind of atonal A Midsummer Night's Dream, the night belonged to Shirley, costumed in an oversized crown and half mask. An in stinctively gifted actor, he also displayed a lyrical, handsomely rounded voice, which prompted one Manhattan critic to declare: "Here, at last, is a tenor who might some day aspire to the supreme place still occupied by Richard Tucker." Though Henze's modernist fantasy was received with some eyebrow-raising by the Santa Fe audience, Shirley drew a rousingly enthusiastic ovation...
...shock and disbelief of what is still an incredulous minute in American history, he became President. I shall never forget that day. He sat in the cabin of Air Force One, a scant few minutes after the assassination, solemn, grim, his face an unyielding mask. All around him everyone was in various states of shock, nearing collapse. But the new President sat there, like a large grey stone mountain, untouched by fear or frenzy, from whom everyone began to draw strength. And suddenly, as though the darkness of the cave confided its fears to the trail of light growing larger...
...subject for this week's cover in four sittings at the Texas Medical Center's Methodist Hospital in Houston. One sitting was abruptly halted when DeBakey was summoned to a nearby operating room to help revive a patient whose heart had stopped beating. In surgical gown and mask, Koerner also studied and sketched DeBakey while he was performing several operations. For the background, Koerner chose the overhead lamp of an operating room and an oscilloscope that monitors a patient's heart and pulse. "I learn something from every operation," DeBakey says; it was his meditative post-operative...
...Mask for Fatigue. It is almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion of liquor today, he complains, because too many people equate all drinking with drunkenness and all drunkenness with alcoholism. Some so-called experts say there is only a hairline between the social or moderate drinker and the alcoholic. "Don't believe it," Chafetz snaps. "A grand canyon separates them." No more than 5% of Americans are alcoholics or problem drinkers destined to become alcoholics, Chafetz believes. Accordingly, Chafetz devotes 95% of his book to the beneficial uses of liquor...