Word: masking
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...suppose my film persona is somewhat a reaction to my stand-up routine," says Beat. His own acting style, he says, is influenced by the traditional stagecraft of Japan's noh theater?long, intricate courtly dramas written to entertain the royal family a thousand years ago. "A noh mask is a completely expressionless mask," he explains. "It's unnecessary for the actor to act dramatically. What the audience can see and interpret is limitless." Beat Takeshi is a modern manifestation of that noh mask: today's Japanese see in him whatever they want...
...mask, either. Sharon may have been responsible for such disastrous military misadventures as Israel's invasion of Lebanon, but he's also proven himself capable of rising above his party's ideological concerns in the interests of nailing down peace deals. During his brief spell as Benjamin Netanyahu's foreign minister, for example, Sharon persuaded the reluctant prime minister to hand over most of the West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian control. His objective is not to stop the peace process altogether, but to be in control of it and drive hard bargains. While Barak had been weighing...
...these superficial flaws mask the real problem--the Core program itself. Not only does the current Core program fail to provide undergraduates with a true liberal arts education, but it also encourages the perception that students are ill-equipped to take departmental classes in fields other than their own. In fact, students rightly balk at taking watered-down Core classes when they could tackle the subject more intensively in a more substantive departmental course. Unfortunately, undergraduates are discouraged from enrolling in such non-concentration courses because they must still fulfill the Core requirements to graduate...
...them to "think outside the box" about solutions to the drug problem. They don't come up with much, and neither do these filmmakers. "Oh, please," we murmur, seeing that Wakefield's daughter is hooked. "Oh, sure," we say when we learn that Milian's cruelty is corruption's mask. "What else?" we ask when a character is assassinated before he can testify against the higher-ups in his operation...
...large-caliber round through his neck. The exit wound tore out the boy's throat. Masry filled the throat with gauze, sewed the skin over it and put the child into one of the morgue's Japanese-made freezer trays at 3[Degrees]C. He pulled off the green mask he wears over his bushy gray beard as he works on the cadavers and went to his office to catch up on his death reports. He had a backlog...