Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant ski-boot clogs, fill in the "yeh, yeh, yeh's." Jobriath gestures. The movements are familiar: mouth in a circle, eyes wide, the elbows cocked, the wrists limpid, the fingers splayed. The music rises in scintillating shimmers. Jobriath leaps backstage, and returns as a "Space Clown." Pink ruffled mask coyly over his eyes, pink satin G-string in place, Jobriath mimes juggling. He pirouettes gracefully. "You're a space clown. When you cry, you bring the sky down." The guitars, augmented with a tape of exorcizing giggles, vibrate, and Jobriath stands transfixed--eyes staring at the audience...
...more willing to accept their leaders as they are and less ready to buy the tiresome public relations conventions that require the American politician to be always one of the boys and hide every trait that might cause alarm?from intellectuality to a bad temper?behind a smiling mask...
...newsmen would prefer to identify their sources in print rather than mask them. It is often all too easy for sources to talk without having to take full responsibility for what they say. In many cases, however, attribution is impossible because people who possess highly sensitive information cannot be expected to sacrifice their careers in order to divulge it. A Capitol Hill staffer or an FBI official, for instance, may have evidence of serious abuses that should be aired. If he cannot get a hearing within...
...Kass, like Ramsey, is worried about euthanasia sloganeering that might mask "our prejudices against the old and 'useless' and, in some cases, our simply crass and selfish interests." Like Ramsey, he questions the slogan's implication that "dignity will reign if only we can push back officious doctors, machinery and hospital administrators." Indeed, reflects Kass, "a death with dignity may turn out to be something rare and uncommon, like a life with dignity...
...Africa with more energy and knowledge than Elisofon, who contributed to LIFE for 35 years and was one of the first trustees of the Museum of African Art. Elisofon's collection of African art comprised more than 600 pieces, including some masterpieces: a delicately incised, ocher-painted Bobo mask from the Upper Volta, with its fantastically ramifying headgear (see color page); the imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face...