Word: masking
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...tools needed to create the experience. The device that converts hand motions into signals the computer can understand is called the DataGlove. Optic fibers sewn onto the fingers are supposed to detect the slightest movement of the digits. A head-mounted display that looks like an oversize skin-diving mask is called the EyePhone. Built-in headphones provide stereo sound, and a pair of liquid-crystal-display screens creates stereoscopic images that give the illusion of three dimensions. Both glove and headset are equipped with electromagnetic sensors that track changes in position and orientation. For computer power, the equipment...
Scrambling to control the damage, Administration officials tried to mask that miscalculation by claiming that the Democrats had reneged on the bargain. But Gephardt told Bush at a White House meeting Tuesday that not only had there never been a deal but that Darman had not presented a full proposal either. As Panetta said later, "We did not pledge that every time the Republicans slit their wrists we would slit ours...
Life imitating art? Not exactly. More like art imitating art, or artist imitating artist. For Marlon Brando is, of course, the man in the mafioso mask in both instances. It might perhaps be said the makeup man was kinder in aging him for the earlier role than the past 18 years have been in bringing him to his present hefty appearance. On the other hand, The Freshman is a comedy, and his roly-poly form and cherubic countenance defuse his menace and suit his self-satirizing purposes...
...been gathering milk and beer bottles to make petrol bombs for "after." The police came by at 5 p.m. and smashed the bottles with their rifle butts, but the kids still had nearly 1,000 hidden away. "Enough to last the night," as one 17-year-old, a ski mask tucked in his back pocket, cheerfully...
...supported detente, since it reduced the risk of war, but added that caution, unity and firmness of purpose were necessary on the part of the West as it embarked on a new and more complex relationship with the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union, I said, is a country "behind a mask," a closed, totalitarian society capable of dangerously unpredictable actions. Detente would promote international security only if the West avoided letting the U.S.S.R. achieve military superiority and at the same time tried to promote a more open Soviet society. I reminded my listeners that the ingrained conservatism and inertia...