Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is tricked out with melodramatic devices that keep it moving suspensefully, though often with a heavily ironic tread. Always fastidiously attentive to detail, Harold Prince has directed in the mode of stylized Expressionism, which helps mask gaping implausibilities in the writing...
...Rachel Roberts brings a commandingly icy meanness to Clara while hinting at a lost tenderness. In recent seasons, John McMartin has established himself as an actor of distinctive range. He has played the disenchanted author in Follies, the skeptical servant Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, and the mask-divided soul Dion Anthony in O'Neill's The Great God Brown. Now, as the hero of The Visit, he is initially bland, wistfully nostalgic about his early romance, then terrified and finally stoically resigned. Paradoxically, his work, as well as that of the rest of the cast...
Ciresi, sporting a red mask with a white strip down the center, ala Doug Savell of the Flyers, played a strong game despite the score, sweeping aside 33 Crimson shots. But while Ciresi played well, so did his counterpart over at the other...
...turning into a civics class to re-examine the American situation. Many teachers worry about the impact of Watergate on their pupils. At a Halloween party in a New York City Catholic school, the prize for the scariest costume went to an eleven-year-old girl wearing a Nixon mask. Helen Wise, president of the National Education Association, wrote the President: "Teachers are asking me how they can fulfill their responsibilities of teaching young people the moral, ethical and spiritual values required in a free society while the President of the U.S. disregards the nation's traditionally high standards...
...front of the Wailing Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem last week, Jewish youths linked their arms for the traditional dances and songs of the joyous holiday of Simhath Torah. Yet the festivities, watched by curious Arabs, could not mask the grim mood of Jerusalem and Israel. The city and the nation are gripped by a cold fury, reported TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: "It is an icy resolve that has stilled the passing joke. Like the coming of the khamsin, the cruel desert wind that afflicts the spirit of all those in its path, the Arab attack has plunged...