Word: mask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peter became a chronic watcher in the shadows backstage. He had slight choice in the matter. Given the rootless life of strolling players, there was little opportunity to develop friendships of a lasting sort. "I never had any real set mates," he told Biographer Peter Evans (Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask). "I'd make friends in one town for one week and then we'd move on. You'd hope, if you played that town again, maybe a year later, that the friend you'd made would still be around; perhaps if he was the landlady...
...refuse the guy who grabs his hand and pulls him to the dance floor. He moves furtively at first, apprehensive. Male bodies fill the cave, twisting, punching, kissing, biting, stroking, tearing. On the wall, a giant neon American flag blinks omnisciently. A man in an executioner's leather mask watches from the side. Pacino's partner spins and flicks his blond curls. The drum pounds louder, the montage quickens, the American flag flashes, glaring like a Puritan God, a caretaker of the Judaeo-Christian sex ethic, a last warning before...
...sick conclusion. Pacino emerges from the close, dark den on Christopher St. into the airy, white space of his girlfriend's apartment. Having finally shed his leather garb, he shaves, staring at his image in the ubiquitous mirror, confronting his self a last time, peeling away his homosexual mask. His ordeal has ended, the beast has been crushed, he is again normal...
Another convincing oddity is the work of Simon Read, whose bizarre photographs-the face distorted and stretched, like a rubber mask-are done with elaborate bellows-and-pinhole cameras that he makes himself. Taken as serials of the same motif, in accordance with the rotation and expansion of the camera, the photographs assume a shifty, hallucinated look...
...anger that Americans originally focused on Iran, while hardly forgotten, is mainly being directed against a new target: the Soviet Union. In New York, a man in a ski mask left a bomb at Aeroflot's Manhattan office Sunday night, Jan. 13; the explosion stunned three French passersby. At Long Island-MacArthur Airport, which handles radar controls for the area's three major airports, Controller Tony Maimone refused to guide an Aeroflot jet into Kennedy. Said he: "If I have to lose my job to show the Soviets that we won't be pushed around...