Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...described as a "brownish-yellow gas" as it plunged through the 24,000-ft. level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft, to get at oxygen masks, stowed in a hard-to-reach spot behind their couches. Brand, whose mask fit poorly, passed out; he revived a minute or so later when Slayton and Stafford clapped the mask tightly over his face...
...larceny briskly and efficiently, with none of Rollerball's thundering pretension. David Carradine, late of TV's Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears in a black mask and zippered leather suit, looking like a cross between a rock star and a fetishist mannequin. His main competition is a character from Chicago (well played by Sylvester Stallone) who gets himself up like a 1950s hood and keeps his girl friend in her place with lines like "People...
...letter purports to disclose that the lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous gamble of playing directly to the audience and makes it pay off in total delight...
...fact still remains that graduate students too need a way to support themselves, and the Dan-forth grant does not mask the deeper, more fundamental, money problems that the GSAS is facing...
...Pentagon, as the generals and admirals went briskly about something they understood, long, languorous James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, paced and puffed on his pipe. He quoted Shakespeare and wore a melancholy mask some of the time because in his world, men would have to shed blood, not clich...