Word: masking
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Well, I found my answer in the hockey mask of Gerry “Cheesy” Cheevers, the Bruins goalie of the 1970 and 1972 Stanley Cup champions. A strange choice, perhaps, to explain all the emotions that sports have imbued within them, but something about this mask makes sense...
Cheevers’ mask is of the Jason-era, a plain white plastic shield that would actually do nothing to stop a puck. But Cheevers’ mask is out of the ordinary since he made a habit out of drawing stitches on the mask with a permanent pen to show where the puck nailed...
...regardless of the visceral repulsion that the mask first gave me, it revealed a huge part of his and many other athlete’s character. In Cheevers’ mask I see a burning desire to play because why else would anyone subject himself to an onslaught of pucks and huge, angry men? I see dedication in training because those hours crouching in the goal could not have been fun. I see the ability to work with a team to fulfill a lifelong dream to be the unequivocal best...
...ROLE OF HOST... In films, BRUCE WILLIS has conveyed stoicism in confronting killer asteroids (Armageddon), creepy kids (The Sixth Sense) and evil terrorists (Die Hards 1, 2 and 3). But no amount of acting could mask the white-hot fear he felt facing a live audience as the emergency host of Late Show with David Letterman. Willis was tapped at the last minute when Letterman, suffering from an eye infection (which turned out to be shingles), called in sick for the first time in 20 years, not counting his absence for bypass surgery. The actor, who was scheduled...
...corporate governance that bites." Maybe, but the case underscores some troubling issues about European corporate accounting. Ahold long had a reputation for being hard to read. Enitan Adebonojo, of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis, a U.S. firm that specializes in identifying companies that use aggressive accounting to mask operational problems, says Ahold used proceeds from real estate sales and leasebacks to boost its numbers in Europe, a technique not allowed in the U.S. She also says she had some tough questions for Ahold about its cash flow, but received only vague answers. "There...