Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moral premise of The Upstart is that good and evil develop simultaneously within a human being, though only the saint mask or, as in Hilary's case, the sinner mask may be visible at one time. How does innocence survive its season of corruption? That is the question Read raises, and because he is an ambitious writer, he dares to risk absurdity by answering them with a climax that builds toward one word: grace...
...development and in the development of universities generally -- the mid-thirties and the present. He pointed up crucial differences between the two; referring to the student unrest of the sixties and early seventies as "bizarre troubles," he said that these troubles were "exotic ripples on the surface which mask more profound changes underneath...
...Blithe Spirit, from whipped cream operettas like Bitter-Sweet to music hall antics like Tonight at 8:30 (with Gertrude Lawrence) from Kiplingesque tunes of glory in Cavalcade to the hilarious battle royal of the sexes, Private Lives. In the film Brief Encounter, Coward even dropped his customary mask of urbane detachment to record a tenderly poignant tale of middle-aged love...
...operates out of Pittsburgh, making his films on the cheap. Rather like Skinflick Impresario Russ Meyer, Romero edits his scenes into short blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre a gas mask!") The plot of The Crazies is a graft off The Andromeda Strain, wherein a virus that the Government has perfected for germ warfare somehow escapes and drives the citizens of Evans City, Pa., out of their gourds. The performances, mostly by amateurs, with a sprinkling of peripheral professionals, suggest that...
Kyle's announcement was unethical and represented an attempt to abridge the community's right to be informed on an important issue. She deliberately waited until the meeting was underway to preclude discussion of her edict. Her employment of journalistic jargon was a clumsy effort to mask an attempted intimidation of the representatives of the press present...