Word: masking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close-up, losing the potential of the quickly varying lighting effects, and inadvertantly showing us less of Benjamin's emotions than we would see were the camera ten feet further away (a similar scene is done to perfection in Truffaut's Soft Skin); a scene shot through a diving mask and one with six frame inserts of Mrs. Robinson's naked body are obtrusively self-conscious, since nothing in previous scenes has prepared us for such technical gimmickry in isolated scenes...
Temporary Mask. The King appears to have patched up his longstanding feud with Nasser-but only on the surface. After the disastrous June war against Israel, Feisal promised to send $140 million a year to help repair Egypt's ruined economy; Nasser, in turn, agreed to withdraw the troops that had been propping up his puppet regime in Yemen. The agreement, however, is only a temporary mask that covers but does not diminish the basic enmity between the two men. "Without question," says a confidant of the King, "Nasser is the No. 1 devil to Feisal...
...immediately Blaiberg was moved to a new hospital wing where, to guard him against an infection such as that which killed Washkansky, he was as isolated as antiseptic ingenuity could make him. Doctors and nurses en tering his room had first to undress in one antechamber, then scrub, then mask and robe themselves in sterile garments. Warned by experience that they might have overtreated Patient Washkansky, the doctors were giving Blaiberg fewer immunosuppressive drugs and in smaller doses. "Perhaps we treated the last patient too early for rejection," Dr. Barnard said. "We are not going to make the same mistake...
...display, they range from a turquoise pre-Columbian mask from the Mixtec culture of Mexico (A.D. 1220) to a bargain Rembrandt, An Old Man Praying. The Rembrandt was picked up for an estimated $500,000 because other buyers were distracted by the painting's murky appearance (Cleveland has since removed the layers of umber-tinted varnish, bringing the Rembrandt back to mint condition, and dumbfounding Dutch experts who had seen it before and after cleaning). Even choicer to the connoisseur's eye are Cleveland's two ivories and, rarest of all, an engraving by Antonio Pollaiuolo...
...master caricaturist often made himself a subject, and his distinctively blunt features can be seen in many of his paintings and drawings. But his second presence in The Family of Charles IV gives ironical depth to an already profound picture. By stripping away his own mask of detachment and presenting a self as warped by passion as any of his royal subjects, the artist seems to suggest that whatever frailty they symbolize, it is one that he cannot pass judgment upon...