Word: mask
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanting to make a big deal is very often just a mask for not being willing to put oneself and one's privilege on the line for the good of a larger community. But it is that same sacrifice by others that allows us to make the choice of silence. What we do in our bedrooms is private only because others made what they did public, and it is from their sacrifices that our moral obligation arises...
...that the interloper's identity was a surprise would be tantamount to saying that Duke's 1990 Final Four triumph over UNLV was a minor upset, for behind that mask was none other than baseball's career hit leader, Pete Rose...
...When you've got KEVIN KLINE in your film, you don't want to lose him behind a mask," says director Michael Hoffman. He is referring to his decision to have Kline (seen here with MICHELLE PFEIFFER) withstand 3 1/2 hours of makeup rather than don a donkey suit to play Bottom in the forthcoming remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For his version of Shakespeare's tale of nymphs, fairies, queens and mismatched lovers, Hoffman sought to explore the vagaries of romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire...
...Jonas certainly did his part to allow for a Crimson comeback. He made saves all night long akin to the goaltender whose style mask he shares--Dominik Hasek...
...December of 1995, Ryan came home from school one day to find the "good envelope" from Harvard. Jan was back in Philadelphia for several weeks of radiation treatment. She knew that the letter was going to come that day, and when she called that evening she tried to mask anticipation by starting a casual conversation about school. "I said, 'Mom, I got into Harvard,' and then I heard the phone drop and just started screaming. My aunt said that she went around the hotel and told everyone in the lobby that her son was going to Harvard...