Word: masked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Systematically, Romains's extraterrestrial observer examines each of man's achievements and judges each a sad reminder of its better past. But inescapably, a question arises: How can this Martian be so filled with nostalgia for a world he never knew? It is then that the mask falls away-it is not a book of discovery, but a book of reminiscence. Romains, an old man (now 76), has written an old man's book, and in the end, he offers a warning drawn from the only lesson Men of Good Will taught: there...
...play opens on the balanced set: attendants speak, and the actors enter. The Queen wears a beautiful and impassive gold mask, and she sits, motionless. A Vagabond enters and tells the King how he has loved the Queen, never seeing her, and how he has sung to men along the roads of her beauty. Looking upon the silent Queen, though, he finds that...
...street scenes that echo in his music. With porkpie hat and elbows locked to his hips in the pose of the cool twist, he sings a celebration of the street-corner king. The song ends with a spin, a pause, and Brown turns back to his listeners-a mask of pain that conjures up the setting for his next lament. In a minute he is downtown again, fingers snapping...
...political Santa who wouldn't harm a flea-he's much too busy squashing people. But the picture belongs to Actress Page, who starred with Newman in the Broadway play. She swirls to the girls' room as if to a coronation, she cuddles her oxygen mask as a normal woman might cuddle a newborn babe, she dimples in maidenly dither at her gigolo's advances, she proceeds a moment later with hard-nosed efficiency to collect what she has paid for. She is a mascaraed monument to the era of the superstar, a veritable muse...
Roaming the Ages. When "Shorty" Knox joined Albright's board of directors in 1926, the gallery already had a collection of surprising quality. It roams the ages in an almost haphazard way: an African mask, a Khmer sculpture, terra cotta tomb figures from China, a Cycladic idol that dates from the Bronze Age but looks as if it might have been sculpted yesterday. There are a few minor masterpieces from the Renaissance, works by all the major French impressionists, a first-rate collection of American art from Gilbert Stuart through Winslow Homer to the present...