Word: masking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cautiously picked their way toward the sound, shouting reassurances, hoping they might find a survivor, miraculously clinging to life in the midst of the rubble. Later, the last, dogged hope abandoned to the harsh realities of the site, it became a salvage job: Pull the wreckage apart, keep your mask on, pray none of the broken steel beams falls on you. This was a daily grind cloaked in mindfulness, punctuated by constant, grim reminders of death and loss, spent sifting through the wreckage in hopes of finding human remains...
When TIME first put a Star Wars movie on its cover, in 1980, we were just beginning to get hints of the mysteries that lurked behind the menacing mask of DARTH VADER, and of how tough it would be for each new sequel to live up to expectations...
With ratings of Ally McBeal sagging in recent months, the show's producers tried to give the series TV's equivalent of cosmetic surgery, goosing it with guest stars like Matthew Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and even Dame Edna. But such distractions couldn't mask the fact that the show was aging badly, and last week Fox announced that after five seasons, the series will go off the air in May. Thus end the travails of Ally, the neurotic Boston lawyer played by CALISTA FLOCKHART, whose vividly rendered fantasies and ethereal body mass captivated and irritated viewers in almost equal...
...resembles Matthew McConaughey more closely than the stoic elder statesman in a Gilbert Stuart painting. Jim Rees, Mount Vernon's executive director, declares that Washington "at age 23 was already the action hero of his times." Using the skills of a forensic scientist, a plastic surgeon and a life mask of the President's face, Mount Vernon will create a more youthful and vital portrait and build a new orientation center, education center and museum to play up his action-hero side. Steven Spielberg is even making a new 15-min. bio film. Indiana George and the Battle of Trenton...
...middle of the show loses speed as director Chuck Russell (The Mask, Eraser) runs out of creative ways to kill his victims. Many of the scenes, in fact, are shot with staccato cuts and scenes where the camera moves so jerkily that it is often difficult to discern who kills who. This is especially true in the digitally mastered shots, as Russell attempts to make up for poor quality digital rendering by swiftly cutting back and forth between the digital creatures and the rest of the action...