Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mansfield's Colorado courtroom testimony and follow-up comments in a Crimson interview do not mask their bald mean-spiritedness with respectable theory. The same is true of Wasinger's praise for Mansfield. Both Mansfield and Wasinger offer opinions of homosexuality without any justifying rationale to support those opinions. Their remarks are not arguments, for an argument would imply there was some supporting logic offered to justify...
...common on Broadway. But nothing makes off-Broadway more exciting than the emergence of new talent, the sense of a career being born. That hope is fulfilled to overflowing by Fichtner and Rapp, who both combine exhilarating talent with terrifying insight into how destruction can serve as a mask for self-destruction...
Ruben did interrupt the flow of the film when he overplayed the early moments of tension. If the whole audience knows from the start that Culkin plays an undercover killer, then it's none too tricky to produce tense moments auguring imminent disaster. Ruben dwells on each scary mask, toy gun, and childish threat, until Culkin's every mouthful at dinner appears redolent of latent monomania...
...point of similarity with feminist art is that it is grounded in trauma. When Horn was a sculpture student in Hamburg in the late '60s, she worked with fiber glass and, unaware that the stuff is poisonous, neglected to use a mask. She ended up confined to a sanatorium for a year, isolated, with severely damaged lungs. When eventually she got back to work, Horn found herself thinking in terms of images of confinement -- cocoons, swaddling, bondage, prostheses. "When you are very isolated or alone," she remarks to the show's curator, Germano Celant, in a catalog interview, "you have...
...brave words mask major weaknesses in the pro-democracy movement. International oil customers, hesitant to offend an influential supplier or harm their own recession-plagued economies, are not likely to embargo Nigerian crude. More fundamentally, democracy leaders have been unable to overcome the ethnic rivalries that have stood in the way of a true sense of Nigerian nationhood since its creation. Support is strong in the Yoruba-dominated southwest and almost nil in other parts of the country...