Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar opening scene of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler -Hedda's new husband nattering away with his auntie. Instead, in a startling departure from the script, Maggie Smith as Hedda strides silently onto the empty stage. Clad severely in white, she is pale and tense, her features a mask of mortal exhaustion and despair that might have been painted by Edvard Munch. She smokes, paces, contemplates herself in a mirror, stares moodily, doubles over in a spasm of nausea. All of the contradictory qualities that are to make up her mordantly gripping performance she foreshadows in mime: hauteur...
...hand has taken the movie as a challenge; how to create the most accurate social document of this decade, right down to creating a plu-perfect student room, stocked with the right records, the right clothes (you know, the whole world wears workshirts). It is a frantic attempt to mask the fradulence of the film with the suffocating correctness of trivia...
...strongest scene in a lackluster film, it will vastly amuse any one who has ever been gassed. The film shows the kids sitting for minutes while great billows of gas waft around them. They cough, but they do not move, a feat that is virtually impossible without a mask...
...good-fellowship, shuffles into this scene and is given the name Scott (Winfield). Then he is selected by the chief inspector to infiltrate the Brothers Under the Constitution, a group of radicals bent on preventing the construction of a school on Randall's Island. Without any convictions to mask, Stanley has little difficulty joining up. In fact, the only thing polarized in Stanley's life is his women. Heidi from Queens is sweet, roundish and compliant. Darleen from Harlem is bitter, lithe and defiant. Why does she go out with...
...team will also look for ways of altering mating behavior in specific insects and thus prevent reproduction. Male moths, for example, locate a female by her scent. It may be possible to mask this scent and prevent the opposite sexes from getting together...