Word: masking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss
...Superman’s cape, Catwoman’s mask, and Larry Summer’s smirk, some undergrads don’t need names to be recognized. It’s their unique decor that wins them a kind of superstardom. What is it like to be a person everyone knows, if not by name then by favored accessory? FM gathered two such specimens, known to many as Headband Boy and Shorts...
Dali's most inspired decision was to reach back to late 19th century realism, to paint in a hyperdetailed style that could be more dreamlike than any of the fright-mask distortions of Picasso. Knowing very well how it would be received by militant modernists, he adopted Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier, the last word in retrograde Academicism, as the model for his enameled surfaces and high-definition images. The final twist was that so many of Dali's images, all those flaccid watches and fluid shapes, remained utterly ambiguous. He cast the clearest light possible on unnameable things...
...They said, well, she’s not going to be a brain surgeon, she might as well go into theater,” Zeta-Jones said. She has since acted in nearly two dozen Hollywood films, including The Mask of Zorro, Chicago, Ocean’s Twelve, and Traffic...
...week ago, Noah Welch addressed the Beanpot Press Luncheon crowd in a suit and a tie. And as much press as the 109th captain of Harvard hockey has gotten over the course of his career, he couldn’t quite mask the childish excitement in his voice...