Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overall figures mask a crazy quilt of variations. Geographically, the picture varies not just by regions but by neighboring states or even within states. In New England, Massachusetts and New Hampshire are growing strongly, but Connecticut has been knocked virtually prostrate by cutbacks in its three main industries: defense, shipbuilding and insurance. In Texas the Rio Grande Valley, for decades the poor stepchild of the economy, is flourishing because of trade with neighboring Mexico. But other parts of the state are troubled by defense cutbacks. Texas Instruments, after slashing worldwide employment from 70,000 in 1990 to 59,500 today...
Through July 3. African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to a monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria...
...performers in "Smiles of a Summer Night" are uniformly fine, with Bjornstrand and Dahlbeck leading the elegiac minuet. Dahlbeck's face, no longer displaying the blush of youth, makes a great subject for the camera. While Bjornstrand's features oftern seem a mask concealing his ture emotions, Dahlbeck's face bears witness to all the joys and travails to which life has subjected her. Naima Wifstrand as old-Mrs. Armfeldt steals every scene she in which she appears; her impossibly wise old dragon is as good as anything Edna May Oliver ever did in Hollywood...
Locked inside the Capitol in room H305, a racquetball-court-size chamber outfitted with eavesdrop-proof paneled walls and soundproof padded doors, the members of the House Intelligence Committee could barely mask their indignation last week as they hurled questions from a horseshoe-shape dais...
Through July 3. African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria...