Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
That caped cavalier in the knee boots and curls is Rex Harrison, all dressed up like French Minister Colbert in his current film Behind the Iron Mask. The picture, which is being made in Vienna, is based on the Alexandre Dumas story of rival twin brothers, swashbuckling musketeers and beautiful maidens. Among the maidens is Dutch-born Sylvia Kristel, whose face and other features graced the 1974 soft-porn picture Emmanuelle. This time Sylvia keeps her shirt on, however, which might account for Rex's gentlemanly critique of his costar. "I admire Miss Kristel for her education," he says...
...most famous object, of course, is the golden mask that covered Tutankhamun's mummified head. Though every bit as cool and haughty as one would expect of an art that above all aimed to celebrate majesty and death, it is far from a resplendent cliché. The mask's burnished golden gleam and shadow evoke a bursting inner vitality that emphatically defies mortality...
...such standards hopelessly unrealistic? Rigorous though the requirements may be, few of TIME'S conferees thought so. One overriding message was that complaints about lack of leadership can mask the failure by ordinary citizens to take responsibility and initiative. If Americans are to have a right to demand more from their leaders, they must give more of themselves. In a democracy, to some extent, all must be leaders...
Clint J. O'Connor '80 left the noon class a few minutes early and returned wearing a gorilla mask. Shouting "Happy Halloween," he tossed $10 worth of candy from his backpack and made his way to the front. He left several lollipops with George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, who was lecturing at the time...