Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another expert testified that Bundy's hair was "microscopically" similar to strands found in a pantyhose mask that police discovered in the rooming house where one coed was assaulted. Finally, Simpson reminded the jury, Bundy had fled from a policeman who stopped his car in Tallahassee. Said Simpson: "The defendant...
...Premier's aides did not attempt to mask their concern that his condition could worsen and conceivably even force his resignation. In a swirl of rumors, Israelis asked themselves if his health might not already be perhaps more impaired than his doctors would admit...
...Quiet crowds watched the laborious and cloaked comings and goings of Leonid Brezhnev at the Hofburg Palace. The grand patrons of the Vienna Opera stealthily turned their proud profiles when the lights dimmed and in the middle of Mozart raised their opera glasses for furtive study of the Brezhnev mask. Soviet proposals at the negotiating table were from old chapters. Their speeches were uninspired. They seemed oddly fearful of the future, even with their massive arsenal...
...first appearance,her cool, elegant prose and witty characters seem comfortable within the traditional British comedy of manners. But with a twist of plot here and a turn of the psychological screw there, Spark sends her comedies careening off in deadlier directions. Wit becomes malice. Tea and crumpets mask terror and corruption. Ordinary lives turn bizarre and mysterious...
...Circumstances and scratchy pride keep Dan and Honey out of each other's beds. Bill and Dan fight drunkenly but patch things up the next day. Celia is weak and worried as she leaves the farm, but that is the way she arrived. Honey never alters the coquettish mask that covers a considerable intelligence. Anna endures...