Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House problem as part of the larger trouble of a people who no longer believe that their public personalities should be based on what they would like to be rather than what they truly are. We are poorer, says Sennett, because we have abandoned control and restraint. Wearing a mask, he insists, can be the essence of civility. Carter sometimes seems to go in the opposite direction to show the world he will not live up to tradition. He would not wear his tuxedo for the state dinner in France's Versailles Palace...
Chipman himself fenced superbly. The Canadian junior Olympian avoided over-confidence, mixing up his attacks rather than aiming repeatedly for the mask as he has in earlier meets...
...been a long day, and Darth Vader was looking for a party. He turned to the winged woman beside him, and said raspingly through his iron mask, "Let's check out the one on the tenth floor...
...thin, electrically insulating layer of silicon dioxide that prevents short-circuiting. Then the wafers are coated with still another substance: the resist, a photographic-type emulsion sensitive only to ultraviolet (UV) light. (To prevent accidental exposure, clean rooms are generally bathed in UV-less yellow light.) Next, a tiny mask, scaled down photographically from a large drawing and imprinted with hundreds of identical patterns of one layer of the chip's circuitry, is placed over the wafer. Exposed to UV, the resist's shielded areas remain soft and are readily washed away in an acid bath...
...Monty was no longer up to challenges of any kind. Sometime during the early '50s, at the very moment of his triumph, he became addicted to drink and drugs. After a catastrophic Hollywood car crash in 1956, which left his face an awkward mask, his decline became a slide. Bosworth seems to pin much of the problem on guilt over his homosexuality - or bisexuality, as she maintains it was - but the evidence is totally unpersuasive. Good as her book is, it offers no real reason for Monty's down fall, which was as mysterious as his talent...