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Fusco gives the mask full approval: "It didn't take me very long to get used to. There's no comparison [with the old wire masks] in vision...
...never seen one break yet," Stone says. "We did have a small problem when we first started using the masks--the part of the mask that anchors it to the helmet was cracking--but within a month they came out with a mask that had a stronger material in that part. The breaks have stopped...
Thus Harvard's greatest contribution to modern sport--not counting the invention of the catcher's mask--may well be that the size of its stadium pushed a Yalie to make a major football innovation...
Theater began with one actor in a mask playing all the parts, relying on his imagination and the audience's. The modern one-person show blends that ancient Greek bravado with the calculated emotional exposure of the stand-up comic. The soloist, unmasked, tells the audience what is about to take place, shaping its reactions, soliciting its affection and implying that the customers are helping create the event rather than passively watching it. In this atmosphere, when the audience applauds some line of dialogue, it is hailing its own perspicacity as well as the actor's. The weakness of Lily...
Banter between the superpowers can mask a deadlock, a breakthrough or something in between. By the time he got to the White House last Friday, Shevardnadze had been through a well-publicized week of public polemics at the United Nations and quiet conversation with Secretary of State George Shultz. But the new messenger from Moscow had given no clues about whether he was carrying the fresh arms-control proposal that other Soviet officials had been hinting at for two months. The silence surprised his hosts. Was the Kremlin continuing its long propaganda prelude to the November summit between Reagan...