Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have the doctor's permission to play tonight," Cavanagh said, "and they're trying to develop a helmet with a mask that I could wear. But I'm not sure. The pain seems to be getting worse and I haven't been able to eat too much. Right now it looks like I'll dress and maybe just go out on the power plays...
...first book at 19-a pretty, sensitive collection of short stories called A Forest in Flower-he finished his studies at Tokyo University and took a job in the Finance Ministry. In 1948 he quit the ministry, changed his name to Yukio Mishima, and published Confessions of a Mask. A fierce portrait of homosexuality-a subject with which Mishima had a lifelong fascination and, some say, involvement-Mask brought him fame. His best-known work, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, brought him a small fortune as well. From that point on, even his art was devoted to the spirit...
...sympathetic qualities (as Stanislavsky counseled his actors); to play tragedy with a light touch; above all to play comedy straight. The maxim has worked trenchant revelation with English Restoration comedy; with Molière, from whom the Restoration playwrights learned, it rips the commedia dell'arte mask off the bleeding man beneath...
Alas: perhaps all the uproar over von Stade's views is a mere mask for the guilt felt by females in elite colleges who for the first time can see-for themselves of course-the light of emancipation from housekeeping and child rearing roles at the other end of the (male chauvinist) tunnel...
...dome, which costs $7.50 per square foot, 300 to 1,000 tons of electric air conditioning will maintain an Astrodomic 72° in summer, while the structure seals out smog and soot. For less well-heeled customers, Sakowitz offers a cheaper escape from the noxious fumes: a sequined gas mask...