Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More typically, matters are not confronted directly. Antigay servicemen single out targets, spreading rumors behind their back, carving butt pirate and die faggot on their lockers and spraying their beds with sexual lubricant. To avoid becoming a target, gay men sometimes play along, trying to mask their pain. They smirk gamely at gay jokes and go to lengths to cloak their true identity. Some invent girlfriends or wives, or even date women. Blatant lies about sexual orientation, however, risk perjury charges if a homosexual comes under investigation. Most, therefore, simply disclose nothing about their personal life. "The result...
With such a dead end likely, many experts are skeptical about how serious Eagleburger and the U.S. government are when they speak of war crimes. Some critics believe that Washington is raising the issue to mask its unwillingness to use force against the criminals in Yugoslavia. The public charges, says Rosalyn Higgins, a professor of international law at the London School of Economics, reflect "impotence or inability for political reasons...
Even as we consume and alter, we erect stage sets to mask the loss. Many Americans today mistake as wilderness the ersatz version to which they have become accustomed. Where once there were forests, now there are tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
Once inside, customers can buy a genuine Empire Strikes Back lunchbox, or a cast-metal Millenium Falcon. If shoppers finds the some of the merchandise a bit expensive, they have a wide selection of cheaper goods to choose from, including a Darth Vader mask, Star Trek squeeze bottles and Japanese animation posters...
...continues to make his own bizarre kind of house calls, providing the advice and equipment that have helped six of his patients take their own lives in the past two years. The last to die was a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman suffering from cancer. Catherine Andreyev used a mask to inhale a fatal dose of carbon monoxide last Monday in Waterford, Michigan...