Word: masking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This summer has made me afraid. As part of my job every day, I read the record at five police stations in Northern Westchester. The activity has unveiled my suburban homeland. The pretty little towns with tree-lined streets and expensive properties are a mask for crime and tension. Just this past weekend, one group of teens in picturesque Cross River, N.Y., violently beat a boy from a rival high school...
...perfectly captured the paradox that is Jim Carrey: a man who has grown past, but still remains, the frightening mask of mirth." STEPHEN GERALD KENT Cranbrook...
Inherent within this idea of a "new, cold conservatism" masquerading as apathy is the idea that conservatives on campus conspired to so mask it. You give us too much credit, dear Crimson. Republicans at Harvard exist only on virtual e-mail lists. We don't even have enough people at meetings to share a pizza. We are not organized. We don't sit around plotting ways to take over the campus and secretly infiltrate a socially-conscious Harvard with the seeds of selfishness and greed...
MARCH 2 A photo op with O.J. lawyer Robert Shapiro at the opening of The Man in the Iron Mask...
...first thing you noticed was the face, a dead-white mask of anguish with black holes for eyes, a curt slash of red for a mouth and cheekbones as high as the sky. Even if Martha Graham had done nothing else worth mentioning in her 96 years, she might be remembered for that face. But she also made dances to go with it--harsh, angular fantasies spun out of the strange proportions of her short-legged body and the pain and loneliness of her secret heart. If Graham ever gave birth, one critic quipped, it would be to a cube...