Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years since his death, Shostakovich's reputation has soared, partly on the strength of these 15 brillant quartets: personal, searingly intimate utterances that represent the flip side of the composer's symphonic-apparatchik persona. The Manhattanites, playing with understanding, cohesion and sharpness, reveal the man behind the mask...
...years since his death, Shostakovich's reputation has soared, partly on the strength of these 15 brillant quartets: personal, searingly intimate utterances that represent the flip side of the composer's symphonic-apparatchik persona. The Manhattanites, playing with understanding, cohesion and sharpness, reveal the man behind the mask...
...Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have the formal perfection and infinite repeatability of great pop music...
...nearly 70 hours of deliberations over nine days, jurors could not unanimously agree that videos like Animal Tapes 1-6, which depicts bestiality, and Dr. Bizzaro, a film that includes incest scenes, were obscene. Sturman, a cleanliness freak who attended the trial in a surgical mask, claims he is the subject of a vendetta by prosecutors and the IRS, which previously seized his Rolls-Royce as part payment for the more than $15 million he owed in penalties stemming from a 1989 tax-evasion conviction...
...from Michigan: Sherry Miller, 43, had multiple sclerosis, and Marjorie Wantz, 58, suffered from a painful pelvic disease. While her husband watched, Wantz received a lethal injection from a device similar to the one Adkins used. Miller, attended by her best friend, suffocated on carbon monoxide breathed through a mask. Neither one was a patient of Kevorkian's, and neither was terminally ill. The doctor was present throughout, said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger. "He provided the expertise. He provided the equipment...