Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main trouble with protecting newspersons' sources of information is that it also protects the non-source-the fictitious "spokesman," "informant close to the situation," "usually authoritative source," etc., used by lazy, irresponsible and even malicious "journalists," the latter to mask the free expression of their own prejudices, of which the average press type is a bundle...
...wore a solid mask of fear to see my blood so spilled...
Lying gravely wounded in the intensive-care section of Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Mississippi Senator John Stennis signaled for a pad and pencil. Although a respirator mask covered his face, he scribbled a brief note to President Nixon, apologizing for his inability to serve as moderator at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington last week...
Bertolucci, like Borges, deliberately omits any explanation for the hero's initial treachery. Author and director both are interested not so much in the act itself as in its effects. The measures taken to mask the incident become a paradigm of the process of myth. Bertolucci suggests the perpetual, inexorable influence of the past by the ingenious expedient of having the characters-the mistress, the father's comrades-look in flashback as they do in the present: the same age, the same aspect, even, at times, a suggestion of the same costume. It gives a disquieting, eerie sensation...
...fair," and he was expected to recover. Only 26 hours after admission, his heart began racing at 140 beats per minute, his blood pressure dropped to 80 over 60 (120 over 80 is normal), and respiration was failing. To pull him through this "ultracritical" period, doctors placed an oxygen mask over his face, and gave antibiotics by intramuscular injection to help combat the congestion in the lungs...