Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intimates who know him off-tube insist that Vidal's public image as a Cassandra in drag is a mask protecting a sensitive, even self-sacrificial ally. Actress Claire Bloom recalls the time last year when he interrupted the writing of 1876 to accompany her on a twelve-day trip to Greece. Depressed by a broken marriage and a role in a play that folded out of New York, she found Vidal a consoling companion, showing her local sights she had not seen before. Later, he dedicated 1876 to her. "I know he likes to give the impression that...
...quotas that blacks represent such a small percentage of the professions--less than two per cent of the major ones. It is this heritage of quotas, in schools, companies, government, that affirmative action seeks to remedy and not simply the cases of subtle discrimination that good faith procedures cannot mask. If society has discriminated in the past, leaving few blacks or women in the professions, then the next generation should be given preference. And that preference should be enforced until it is clear that there are no barriers to opportunities for either group. Without such goals, affirmative action is liable...
...mouse structure, never realized, called for the building of a huge facade-face of a mouse on the hills over Hollywood. The tongue (originally the handle of the movie camera) was to protrude out into space. From this elevation the movie camera-mask-mouse-skull would watch over Hollywood, its creation and its creator. Oldenburg commented: "Maybe people would commit suicide off the tongue, like the Golden Gate bridge...
...mask of success is a deception because behind it is hidden a very terrible face." At his bleakest moments, he swears that had he known where acting would lead him, he would have become an engineer. "Nonsense," says Lina Wertmuller. "Giancarlo was born to be an actor. He was born to work at my side. And I was born to work at his. Our fates are sealed...
Some Western officials, in fact, believe that the South African withdrawal-and UNITA's ouster of Western journalists from its territory-may be designed to mask continued South African involvement. The suspected strategy would entail a forward movement of detachments of South African soldiers camouflaged as mercenaries. Their job would be to stiffen the UNITA resistance and provide a holding and screening force to cover the re-entry of South African army regulars into the battle...