Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Democrats did not mask their unhappiness. As Gingrich gave his speech, Representative Maxine Waters of California decided she wasn't going to bother to fake it. As her colleagues clapped at the nicer sentiments of Gingrich's speech -- and even rose to applaud him several times -- Waters sat fixed in her seat, glowering. For part of the speech, she even left the chamber. But others in her party were willing to marvel...
...even the moguls realize that women's pictures often have a gentility, an expanse of emotion, absent from True Lies or The Mask. And, hell, somebody's got to fill those five slots for the Best Actress Oscar nominations. So come December, when the Oscar-qualification deadline looms, the women's club is allowed in. This month will see movies starring such divas as Susan Sarandon % (in two films), Jessica Tandy (two), Geena Davis, Sigourney Weaver, Anjelica Huston, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Jason Leigh...
...wait six hours while another commander went back for the bullets he had forgotten to bring to target practice. One soldier eventually suffered what appeared to have been a heart attack; he died when he was beaten after being forced to do push-ups while wearing a gas mask. A second recruit succumbed when he was beaten so brutally by other soldiers that he suffered a brain hemorrhage. A third died of a bleeding ulcer after the doctor on base decided he was faking his pain...
Perhaps it was fitting that on Halloween weekend Joe Mathews donned a particularly ghoulish mask of ignorance for his article on "Why Harvard [sic] Is Sick of Radcliffe." His crude sexism offends us all. Harvard, for which Joe Mathews blithely claims he is speaking, is not anti-woman or anti-Radcliffe. The last time I looked around here, snide machismo was out of favor with men as with women. Radcliffe College is a revered part of this institution--revered not just by its alumnae. It is more than fair to say that Harvard benefits immeasurably from Radcliffe's programs...
...course, the growing demand for professionals tends to mask the fact that millions of service workers remain stuck in jobs like waiter or sales clerk that pay little more than the $4.25-an-hour minimum wage. "All you have to do is hire two Goldman Sachs partners and you probably distort the average wage scale throughout the service sector," quips Bruce Greenwald, a management professor at the Columbia Business School...