Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press time, there was no immediate sign of an Iraqi attack on Israel, as Hussein had threatened. But the Israeli army declared a state of emergency at about 7:30 p.m. and asked all Israeli citizens to open their gas mask kits in preparation for an Iraqi attack with chemical weapons...
...Dyck was truly a painter's painter. There is nothing intimidating about his work, as there often is about Rubens'. He loved private character and painted the interplay between that character and the public mask with a sensitivity that few artists have rivaled since. Sometimes he would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton...
Many students interviewed said they feel Bush is manipulating the situation for his own political gain, both in the United States and throughout the world. Many accused the president of trying to mask an economic and political struggle with moral justifications...
Waters accused President Bush of being "the biggest bluffer." She charged Bush with trying to mask the true objective of the intervention--U.S. economic interests--behind the curtain of such justifications as a possible Iraqi nuclear threat. And the representative applauded the emerging anti-war sentiment in the U.S. that she hopes will end U.S. military involvement in the Gulf crisis...
Teicholz wisely refrains from leading his own tour into the dark terrain of Demjanjuk's mind. "Demjanjuk had given abstract evil a human face," he writes. Only Demjanjuk's victims can describe what it looked like when the mask was removed...