Word: masks
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Chick Corea Elektric Band--celebrates the release of its new CD "Beneath the Mask." Tickets are $22.50 and $24.50. Call 876-7777. At the Berklee Performance Center on Sunday...
...last week's release of 60 more hours of White House tapes came as a timely reminder that Nixon is not simply an author and global analyst but an unindicted co-conspirator who is lucky to have escaped prison. Listen to any random conversation, on any day, and the mask of respectable elder statesman melts away to reveal a deceitful, lowbrow, vindictive character, dangerously armed with the full power of the IRS, FBI and CIA, and all too willing to use it. Audit his enemies, he orders. "We have to do it artfully so that we don't create...
...ringing success, in part because conventioneers were distracted by the many "agreements" they were supposed to keep in mind. In deference to those suffering from "environmental illnesses," the NLC prohibited any perfume or clothing washed in scented soaps. The ban was enforced by a sentry wearing a surgical mask. Another guideline called for "parity" at all conference events. Thus half of all committee members had to be "lesbians of color," 20% had to be lesbians with disabilities and at least 5% of the members "old lesbians" (definition: "over 50 with a history of ageism activism"). In some areas, however, organizers...
...propagated it, imposed a clear discipline and aesthetic on a new, inchoate art. By the 1950s she was the biggest dance celebrity in the country. She could inflame almost any audience, and she was a genius at dealing with donors and the press. Her personal flair -- her Easter Island mask of a face, her extravagantly theatrical wardrobe -- made her slightest gestures, onstage or off, indelible...
...estimated surplus of $74 billion this year, $83 billion next year and $225 billion by the year 2000. Charging the government with "extortion," Moynihan claims that this "trust fund" is being improperly counted as general revenue when the federal budget is written each year and is being used to mask the real size of the budget deficit. Besides, Moynihan contends, the Social Security tax is one of the country's most regressive levies, putting a greater burden on middle- and low-level earners than does the income tax. "It's time the American worker got a break," he says. "Average...