Word: masking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wideman's narrator, known as Cudjoe, is a mask for the 49-year-old author. Fiction and fact are freely blended; the style is a mix of directness and allusion reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Cudjoe, in fact, is invisible to himself. He has been an expatriate, living on a Greek island where he tended bar by day and tried to write at night...
...this mask that made her look like Jason," sweeper Tory Fair said...
...morning, the Jerusalem Post, ran an suprising logo above its masthead: a gas mask. "Gasmask information, Page 2," read the words around a graphic of what looked like a vintage World War I gas mask...
...citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...
...which a woman sarcastically intones, "Hey, call it what it really is: the Hayden initiative. You know -- Tom Hayden." The forces arrayed against Big Green say their funding comes from California agricultural, chemical and business sources. But the proposal's supporters charge that pesticide companies are trying to mask their contributions behind ambiguously named front groups. Last week Los Angeles city attorney James Hahn filed suit against one anti-Big Green group, alleging that it violated a new law requiring disclosure of funding sources in political...