Word: masks
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Schnittke's rise to prominence is a tribute to his artistic integrity. His slight frame, perilous health (he has suffered two strokes and a heart attack) and diffident demeanor mask a revolutionary sensibility. As an iconoclast in a country of enforced artistic conformity, Schnittke represented for many of his Soviet countrymen a kind of artistic glasnost long before Gorbachev made it permissible. Stylistically unpredictable and resolutely uncompromising -- there are no "Socialist Realist" elements in his music, no compositions celebrating factories at work or peasants at play -- Schnittke's music is fundamentally deconstructive. It uses the past as raw material...
...women who play Irene and Sophie, Elena Safonova and Romane Bohringer make do quite well with the faces with which they have been endowed. Bohringer's expression is convincingly impenetrable and Safonova's face when singing on stage is the flexible mask of an actress. Safonova, however, portrays Irene too personably in her private life; she does not behave as contemptibly towards Sophie as her words suggest she should, and not content with her concert audience's attention, she arrogates foe herself too much of the film audience's allegiance somewhat, it does not significantly disturb the balance...
...Bosnia and drugs, sweet words mask meager policies...
Cities have also sought recognition as the official "Mudville" where the infamous ball game was played. Stockton, Calif., held reenactments of the poem throughout the fifties and sixties. In one of these restagings, the "Casey" was masked and the audience member who guessed who was under the mask won a prize...
...most controversial song, If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night), she sings of cheerfully taking away a friend's mate. Feminists have deplored the unsisterly politics, while gays have accused her of trying to mask her sexuality. NdegeOcello -- a U.S. Army brat who was born in Berlin but raised in Washington -- calls herself gay but says she has also been attracted to men; she has a four-year-old son, Askia. "How can I dislike or distance myself from men," she says, "when I have to raise...