Word: mask
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...another tries to gather them in her arms. In “Black and White,” the U.S. premiere of five ballets choreographed by Jirí Kylián between 1986 and 1991, decorum is literally cast off and left excavated on the stage like a mask behind which no face appears. Variations of an elaborate, rigid 18th century dress appear in each of the five ballets: “No More Play,” “Petite Mort,” “Sarabande,” “Falling Angels...
...years, Presidents have used this image of omnipotence to mask a reality of inaction. The pattern got its start in the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon appointed the nation's first energy czar, a Coloradan named John Love. The arrival of the handsome Westerner was announced with appropriate czarist fanfare, and Love went right to work on a plan to reduce the amount of energy that Americans consumed. But he quickly realized that Nixon didn't really want Americans to consume less energy; he wanted people to think that he cared about the issue, even if he didn't. Love...
...Being underwater is a pretty surreal experience anyway, so the quirks of 3-D seem more forgivable, even fun and whimsical, in this environment. Footage of sharks encountering giant sting rays and turtles casually munching on deadly poisonous jellyfish are viewed through a mask, in the dark; scuba divers see the ocean the same way. 3-D filmmakers have found that objects moving quickly across the screen can make viewers nauseous, but having anything move quickly into your field of vision in the water is startling. Mostly the technology succeeds, however, not because it makes you feel you're underwater...
...effect. The movie seems to put her on display just to toy with her, often in tight close-ups. Zellweger used to have such a distinctive, offbeat type of prettiness, but in this movie she often looks as though she's wearing a sloppily manufactured Renée Zellweger mask...
When it's time to join the fun, kit yourself out with a mask from MondoNovo in the Dorsoduro quarter. Every inch of wall space in this grottolike shop is hung with elaborate masks skillfully handpainted in vibrant colors. "The secret of wearing a mask is to invent a personality for yourself and interact with the people around you," says master maskmaker Guerrino Lovato, whose papier-mâché creations were worn by Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. (See pictures of the glitz and glamour at the Venice Film Festival...