Word: mask
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private. His obsessive secrecy about his personal life has allowed legends and rumors to embed themselves in his biography: that he was a career KGB officer; that his father's name was Finkelstein or Kirschenblatt; that his current family name is actually a pseudonym, taken to mask his Jewish roots. The stories are plausible but unprovable. The one man who could confirm or deny them, Primakov himself, refuses to comment. As a longtime colleague puts it, you inquire about his private life at your own risk...
...GAINESVILLE, GA., Hall County sheriff Bob Vass warned Ku Klux Klan leaders they would be jailed if they tried, by holding a march on Halloween, to evade a state law that forbids wearing masks or hoods to conceal a person's identity. "If they've got on a Klan robe and a Klan hat and any type of mask, including a Mickey Mouse mask, they will be arrested," said Vass. And then have to deal with Michael Eisner, he might have added...
...stationed in Europe). The movie opens with Crow's crew standing outside an old, dilapidated mansion in New Mexico that Crow believes is infested with a vampire "nest." The team loads up, arming themselves with high-tech crossbows, metallic lances and machine guns. Crow, his face a weather-beaten mask of intensity, glares into the camera. The group's tag-along priest blesses them over the Holy Bible. The team then storms the mansion and the resulting melee is chaotic and bloody, consisting mostly of vampires getting harpooned and dragged outside by a Jeep winch, where they burst into flames...
...reason Clinton comes to mind is that the structure is both what it is and what it no longer is. One watches the President these days as if he were a man wearing a Bill Clinton Halloween mask. The mask says: Save education, save Social Security, Kosovo, the Middle East. The man slumps in a chair in a corner of his house and wonders who is going to save him and if he is going to make it through another hour...
Dear Dr. Notebook: The hot Halloween costumes are Clinton masks and White House-intern getups, featuring blue dresses, berets and wigs. Why isn't there an official Monica mask and costume...