Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebirth of Homo habilis was not easy. Fischer asked Hollywood Makeup Artist Bob O'Bradovich, whose credits include work for Beatlemania and the Hallmark Hall of Fame, to prepare a mask of Homo habilis from Leakey's sketches. A rubber model was made in New York, which Fischer and O'Bradovich then took to Leakey in Nairobi...
...rabbit and false eyelashes; and he also requested a personal guard to protect his equipment and handiwork from whatever hazards might lurk in the bush. In three 18-hour days, O'Bradovich fashioned a plaster head modeled from skull fragments, then used the head to mold a latex mask of a Homo habilis face. A Kenyan volunteer wore the mask for Fischer's cover photograph, taken in the desolate Rift Valley outside Nairobi...
...usually overlooked that for a retired person, a new life begins: a new life with new opportunities and new challenges. So-called love for the job and the position one holds is frequently nothing but a mask to conceal mental lethargy and fear of change. Retirement at 65 is like the quality of mercy: it blesses him who retires and it blesses the unemployed for whom the gates to a productive life are finally opened...
...Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...
...make rigid comparative judgments about the objects on display. The Corinthian helmets and hammered gold shields may intrigue some people more than reliefs of buxom goddesses, while others may be drawn to metal worked laurel wreaths used to honor the dead. And especially interesting is a silvered-iron mask of a man's face with rough cast-iron "hair" made in the first century A.D. More spontaneous in spirit is the bronze "Horseman" cavorting, only three inches high yet painstakingly, masterfully fashioned. Ostentation, heroism, eroticism and plain whimsy--all are here. Collections of such variety are rare indeed. Veritable treasures...