Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brazell plays Champlain well; his delivery is straightforward and believable. And while the lines seemingly roll off his tongue too easily, this is in keeping with the character. Appropriately, Brazell gives little insight into the substance behind the manufactured Champlain mask...
...product of 19th century British fiction. No fooling. Charles Palliser does not resuscitate this old form -- which stretched from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy -- in order to play modernistically with its conventions, as John Fowles did in The French Lieutenant's Woman. Never does Palliser's Victorian mask slip to reveal the ex post facto knowledge and anxieties of the present era. Pastiche is not a means to an end but the whole point of this enterprise...
...among his people. The designers had an inkling of something being out of proportion and put an exit door in the plane's belly so a President would not look like the Angel Gabriel descending from the clouds as he negotiated 26 ft. of stairs. But that will hardly mask the bird's mass...
...their civilian bosses to judge the enemy by his capabilities, not by his stated intentions. He can deceive about his intentions, or his intentions can change from one year to the next. Capabilities, by contrast, are more constant; they can be gauged objectively; they are harder to change and mask, and once they have truly changed, they are harder to reverse...