Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This interdependence of man and animal lends the people themselves to dress as animals as they call on the spirits. Their ceremonial masks are the focal point of this show, and their beauty blends both religious utilitarianism and aesthic form. A forehead mask, of a loon, an elegant swoop of painted wood, decorated with seagull feathers, eagle down and willow branches, becomes the frightened figure of a dying animal...
STREAK OF THE WEEK AWARD: Tied by Mark Nunes, 21, who dashed down the center aisle of the Michigan house of representatives at Lansing, wearing only boots and a ski mask, and the two St. Louis students who barreled au naturel through the front entrance and out the back door of the Penrose district police station...
...SATIRIZE their societies in two different ways. They can look at things at their worst, at their most blatantly divergent from the professed ideals of the people around them. Or they can take the professed ideals at their noblest and best, but without blinding themselves to the realities they mask, so that the realities begin to show through only gradually, in glimmers, in a way that's painful and impossible to dispute. The first method usually presents a clearer statement. Since its techniques are more direct, more didactic, more immediately biting, the criticisms the playwright presents leap...
Another Russian lady, Rosa Kuleshova, can "read" with her fingertips while securely blindfolded. James Randi, analyzing photographs of Kuleshova, promptly announced that her act was "a fraud." To prove his point, he invited testers to blindfold him with pizza dough, a mask and a hood. Then he proceeded to drive a car in traffic. "I won't tell you how I did it," he says. "But it was not parapsychologically. It was pure deception, just as hers was." Such revelations have not deterred the parapsychologists in the U.S.S.R. or elsewhere. They freely concede that many of their subjects do sometimes...
...great educator: the cards she deals out have led ski racers into fixes they never could have imagined had they not experienced them. Second, her forte is comedy, but no one should underestimate her ability to play any role. At the NCAAs last year she donned a tragic mask on an icy gray morning during practice for the downhill. Mickey Cochran, special coach of the Vermont team, could only say this of the death of the boy from Nevada: "It was a freak thing. Ten thousand racers have gone past that spot in the woods and nothing ever happened...