Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snow were melting into little puddles and students were playing with frisbees and dogs in the Yard, barriers went up: white lines with poles that warn students to keep off the grass as it is reseeded and blue-green paint that some first-years have thought appeared to mask the lack of grass...
...intensity of the two principals. But the portrayal of the horses on stage deserves special mention. From the swaying of the head to the resting on one leg, the actors had mastered all the subtle mannerisms of that animal so well that any horse costuming beyond the simple wire mask would have been overkill. Because the human faces were always visible within the horse mask, the presence of human emotions within the horse character provided a chilling insight into Alan's world view--especially the mischievous grin of the Equus horse-god (Matthew Williams...
...Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported Indian co-conspirators launch a power grab that includes Orwellian public relations, kidnappings and pet assassinations. Franzen's twisty plot and thriller pace are the sweeteners that mask his caustic commentary on urban decline...
...years later, a girl came running into Mr. Covino's fifth grade class, heralding through mask of shock and sweat that the Challenger had exploded just moments after liftoff. A mood of solemnity hung over Grafflin Elementary School that afternoon and it lingered for several days. Parents and teachers related how they had learned of the Kennedy assassination in a similar fashion. Sometime later that year, a current events-minded teacher took a poll, and my classmates voted the Challenger incident to be the most important news story...
...reaction" on spaceflight disasters in 1967 and 1986 that killed 10 Americans. "Our record here has been far less threatening," concludes Blagov. Maybe. While the Russian space program claims only two deaths in its 36 years of operation, tight-lipped secrecy among military space program officials is thought to mask dozens of other deaths from launch pad explosions, rumors that are not likely to reassure NASA officials...