Word: mask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something ethic, while Bush represents mainstream Republican skepticism of new Government programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle been defined for the voters. This vagueness provides protective camouflage for Bush, who has artfully used evocative phrases like "a kinder, gentler nation" to mask the passivity of his domestic agenda. He has, to be sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem to spring from deep personal conviction. ! Rather, they have been offered to the voters -- and may someday even be enacted into law -- to take...
...time he would construct a formidable "character" to mask his shyness: Degas the solitary, the feared aphorist, the Great Bear of Paris. He never married -- "I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture." He had a reputation for misogyny, mainly because he rejected the hypocrisy about formal beauty embedded in the salon nudes of Bouguereau or Cabanel -- ideal wax with little rosy nipples. "Why do you paint women so ugly, Monsieur Degas?" some hostess unwisely asked. "Because, madam, women...
...knew a lot about tragedy and comedy. Among many other things, his father died when he was a teenager, and his older brother's accomplishments became a terrible burden. Yet when life crowded him, as it did so often, Billy, intelligent, sensitive, shy and insecure, would hide behind the mask of the clown. Last week Billy was buried in the red Georgia earth near Plains, his beloved hometown. His friends and family -- including brother Jimmy, the former President -- were there. They knew, if the rest of the world did not, what they had lost...
...Committee, reports that no-penalty testing in 1983-84 found that 20% to 50% of U.S. athletes were doping. Current formal testing in the U.S. turns up positives at a rate of 2% to 3%. Athletes' understanding of how to beat the tests by using either extra drugs that mask the performance-enhancing ones or by getting off the stuff in time to clear their systems accounts for the difference. Says Dr. Bertram Zarins, a team physician for the New England Patriots and Boston Bruins: "Athletes are always a step ahead of any testing program...
...nowhere questions may slip through the rehearsal radar. Both candidates might be flummoxed by a panelist who simply asks them to justify their lifelong aversion to reading novels. You can probably tell when to be alert; neither Bush nor Dukakis is a good enough actor to totally mask that bewildered look of "Huh?" Award 5 points for the best answer to an oddball question...