Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergone torture in a World War II prison camp. To Mills, also, goes the show stopper, should the film stop for a splendid job. Barrow, overpowered with anger at Sinclair's flagrant violation of orders grips the stem of his martini glass, his face burning into a mask of hatred. He cannot continue his polite conversation; he cannot speak; he cannot move. Finally a reaction comes, and he puts down the glass with a shaking hand as he goes to put a stop to the insult to his commands. In the putting down of the glass is indicated the ultimate...
...toes seemingly reading a tightrope in faltering braille, he teeters across the high wire, but only after the audience is made to know that courage can be the vanity of cowards. In the most affecting sketch of the evening at the New York City Center, Marceau plays a mask maker trying on his wares in a quick-change display of a bewildering variety of emotions, until his face gets stuck behind a mask of inane gaiety. He tugs at the fool thing, but it will not come off, and behind this frozen idiotic grin his body writhes in frustration...
...dentist's chair, a terrified girl imagines that the drill hovering above her has the "shape of a great hooded bird." And his small scope is deceptive. His characters are afraid of life only because they are in need of love. Their peevishness, spitefulness and British reserve all mask an inner anguish, conceal layers of loneliness that Larkin peels off with precision...
...critics were baiting their prodigy traps. After he made his November debut with the Metropolitan Opera they sprang: "hand to mouth" conducting said one, adding that Maazel is a martinet whose merciless, metronomic beat is in fact, a mask that covers weakness and insecurity. Such talk may have momentarily quieted Maazel, but it did not shake his confidence. Last week at Philharmonic Hall, he led a Beethoven Fifth Symphony in which fate really did seem to knock at the door; under Maazel. the horns spoke high German, and the double basses, which before had hidden shyly in the hall...
...says one official. To meet the need, teachers are writing their own readers, inventing new educational tricks. They are winning the confidence of their pupils, some of them so self-conscious about their lack of education that one man, for example, habitually carried a newspaper with him to mask his total illiteracy. Next month, enrollment will reach 8,000, and 10,000 more people are waiting to sign up. If he can find the money. Pioneer Hilliard hopes to expand to 60,000 students. All he needs is $2,000,000 a year-not so much compared to Cook County...