Word: mask
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There researchers created a full-color image the way a TV set does--by combining red, green and blue versions of a single picture. The first step was to apply red and green masks to the black-and-white image, producing two muddy versions of the photo. Then a blue mask was applied to the infrared image--and things got interesting...
...Toss the Tums? The antacids and acid suppressors that ARTHRITIS SUFFERERS routinely down to alleviate the stomach distress caused by aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs may help the tummy feel better. But, warn researchers, they may also mask serious disorders like stomach bleeding...
...even as the person closest to him ("she is the only one around for whom the mask comes off," says a Dole official), Elizabeth often comes up against his inscrutability. Campaign aides say she was initially resistant and displeased by his decision to leave the Senate, and it took considerable persuading for her to get with the program. But Elizabeth is better at reading character than her husband, so she often detects hidden agendas and advises him on whom to trust and whom to bust. Her regular lament is that there are not enough "grownups" on the campaign...
...that matters. When he addresses the team, each woman grows perfectly still; when he follows the boat in his launch, shouting out a steady stream of corrections, interrupted by the occasional, "Ja, that was good," they hardly dare look at him. Every so often, Buschbacher lets his tough-guy mask slip and acknowledges that his team is the best, the strongest, that the race is theirs to lose. But if he doesn't push them, he believes, no one will. One day, as the Eight begin oaring down the river, he buzzes alongside them like a particularly persistent gnat, detailing...
Fairbanks died early, at 56, but he had already written his obituary on film. At the end of the 1929 The Iron Mask, when D'Artagnan is killed, his spirit rises and he marches in heaven with the other Musketeers, their burly bonhomie still alive. And Doug is in the middle--smiling as if he'd just won the race, the fight and the girl...