Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak in a tuft of hair. A foldable top lip falls to a point, the mountainous nose above and a wing collar binding neckless jowls threaten to envelop the pyramidal brain. Mouths snarl from monstrous faces, others just venture a gawky grin. Yet Daumier models even the most hideous mask with humor...
Kafka's heroes are like the sculptures of Giacometti: all elements of mask and attitude are burned away until only an irreducible essence remains. As the surveyor, Schell accurately embodies the man known only as "K." His agony and bewilderment are true, to the final exhausted syllable. The villagers are a finely balanced mixture of arrogance and dread. Kafka's tales all take place in limbo; the movie fills its snowbound setting with an unworldly black-comic air appropriate to the author, whom Thomas Mann called "a religious humorist." Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there...
Most painful, Director Jack Viertel stretched the eighteen minute playlet to half an hour, on the theory that unhappiness slows all conversations down to 121/2 rpm. He mis-paced differently in the mask scene, which moved too fast to contain the action and the full cast...
...notebooks were found on his bureau, the third at the foot of Sirhan's bed. Adamantly refusing to accept his plea, Walker warned Sirhan's lawyers that he could order him held to his chair by restraining straps and gagged with a special face mask if he did not keep silent...
...high-proof alcohol although still liquid would freeze the mouth and throat and cause almost instant death. Swaddled in layer upon layer of goosedown and fur, the snowmobilers looked as bulky as brown bears. One driver rigged his wife's electric hair dryer into his helmet and face mask for added warmth. But nothing seemed to help much. On the second day the temperature dropped to 70° below zero. As the snowmobilers plowed ahead through Moose Creek and the village of North Pole, the freezing exhaust of their engines created a tunnel of ice fog. Visibility was reduced...