Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they are alone is something of a misstatement, however. These comic Prosperos can conjure up whole casts with a mere wink of the eye or shrug of the shoulder. His face is a rubbery Halloween mask that can be anyone from Captain Hook in Peter Pan -another product of their collaborations-to a sailor in On the Town. She is the perfect counterpoise, an off-the-rack Garbo who would have turned even Camille into a wild giggle. Rarely has so much wit and fun been packed into two hours. To cop a line from another songwriter. Cole Porter...
...unfeeling and--in Gallagher's case--possibly vindictive treatment of its employees. It is unfortunate that in offering these workers undesirable jobs, and in trying to circumvent a statute that would back the employees up, the University has seen fit to hide behind legal technicalities that thinly mask a cold, calculated attempt to cut back on labor costs...
...organisms--they couldn't have been any less than four feet tall--were literally enveloping everything in their path: farm animals, ears of corn, television news anchorpeople, controlled substances. And there was a lab technician in there, dressed up in a lab technician's outfit, and wearing a gas mask...
Since the New York Rangers hockey team has scared almost nobody this season, their French Canadian goalie Gilles Gratton hit on a terror tactic of his own. He bought a $300 fiber-glass mask that looks like a snarling lion with flashing fangs. "Im a Leo," Gratton explained. "This mask becomes me." Mixing his menagerie metaphors, Gratton added, "That's no bull. I really feel stronger." Gratton's famous teammate Phil Esposito thinks the bright mask "is terrific. It makes Gratton happier, so he plays better." Indeed, the Rangers won a victory the very first time the goalie...
...child, adored her to distraction. His career as a long-distance sensualist began with the click of her jewelry, the textures of her silks and satins, the perfume from her furs. He wrote of "the green paradise of infant love," defining genius as "childhood rediscovered at will." Underneath the mask of decadence, the prematurely aging face with its repertoire of grimaces, was a youth of retarded innocence, a closet Dorian Gray...