Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...football star's ex-wife and her friend. The hearing was an attempt to help Simpson's attorneys prepare for his defense, as well as to end speculation about some of the purported evidence. The prosecutor, for instance, cleared up one particularly gripping misconception: there is no bloody ski mask that might link Simpson to the crime, as was widely reported. Such errors are not surprising, given the swarm of media that has descended on L.A. Just how closely is this ordeal being covered? In a private, quiet conversation with deputies, Simpson complained about his jail-cell conditions and asked...
...Marley. She knocked on doors and asked friends to come out and play. She got kicked out of dorm crew for refusing to do her job. In the short stories she wrote in high school she concocted, for her friends' confusion, an obsession with a man wearing a ski mask, behind the wheel of a beige pick-up truck; the character drove through every story she wrote for about two or three weeks, says David C. Kammler '94, a friend from high school...
...less distressingly, truly spectacular actors appear in farcical and overdone bit parts, Whoppi Goldberg fulfils the rather insignificant role of Jake's mother's quirky side-kick, as well as popping up successively as a hard-hat construction worker, a marching band conductor on an interstate, and the mask of comedy in the stone-work of an off-Broadway theater. Kathleen Turner appears as a over-sexed soap-opera star who, in spite of her potentially exciting role as temptress, never makes her presence felt. Timothy Dalton is, however, somewhat elegant in his suave portrayal of the wheeler-dealer gallery...
...lessons of the Great Place apply today when Mandela chairs meetings of the National Executive Committee, the ruling body of the A.N.C. His face becomes a mask as he notes each person's views and registers the course of the discussion and argument. He knows the weight of his opinion and holds it in reserve until it is deemed necessary. If there is a deadlock he attempts to resolve it. Otherwise he tries to steer the argument toward consensus...
...cannons fired, a man wearing a rubber Nixon mask walked through the crowd, climbed on a step next to a statue and gave Nixon's familiar two-armed victory sign salute...