Word: mask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even a different government in Jerusalem would probably bring a change in tone rather than substance. The acrimony and strains of the Begin years have tended to mask a painful truth: the long-term interests and goals of the U.S. and Israel often diverge and sometimes clash directly. That does not mean that compromises cannot be explored or accords worked out. What it does mean is that the conflicting objectives make it incumbent upon both countries to be especially scrupulous about maintaining ties and to strive harder to understand each other. That has not been the case over the past...
...cause of that fuss was the disappearance of two projection mask aligners (price: $250,000 each) made by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. The automobile-size machines, called Micralign 200s by Perkin-Elmer, are used in the manufacture of microcircuitry for everything from digital watches to missile guidance systems. Designed ten years ago, the equipment has since been superseded by more advanced models. Nonetheless, the Commerce Department has it on a list of equipment banned for export to Iron Curtain countries. Commerce analysts estimate that 70% of computer microchips made in the Soviet Union are turned out on Western...
Talking to a group of guidance counselors in Phoenix, A.C.M. President Charles Neff set out to dispel some myths about his region. The Midwest is not dull. It is not flat. "We do have woods and lakes and rolling hills," he said. His jocularity did not mask his mission. Said one of the counselors: "Any time someone serves you Bloody Marys and screwdrivers at noon, you know they're serious." Neff anticipated questions with a barrage of statistics: 58% of A.C.M.'s graduates find full-time employment within a year after graduation, 25% are enrolled in graduate...
...thing too many. As he did in his 7½-hour Our Hitler, a perplexing, impassioned examination of German culture, Syberberg employs symbols the way others use props; in fact he uses them as props. In Parsifal, some of the actual terrain is derived from Wagner's death mask; the prominent nose becomes a rocky outcrop, the nostrils a cave. The final scene takes place in a vast ruined forum, which is contained within one of the composer's richly brocaded jackets...
...Reed: The Blue Mask (RCA). An exorcist whose major struggle is with his own ghosts, Reed still keeps a few paces ahead with a rearing cycle of autobiographical songs...