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Word: unmask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andrea Kosinski wants to meet him. She says that because she is his public she has a right to. Goddard remembers that John Lennon's public killed him and continues hiding his identity even from his parents. To unmask Goddard, Andre enlists the unlikely help of Patrick Domostroy, a once prominent classical composer perfectly content at being reduced to playing the piano at a "pinball joint that tries to pass for a nightclub." Like most of Kosinski's heros, Domostroy lives on the fringes of normal morality and society. In an abandoned ballroom in the South Bronx, he spends...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Tilting | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

Institute, declares: "Poland is one of those great events that happen once in a generation to unmask the truth." Like former CIA Director and Ambassador to Iran Richard Helms, Wattenberg sees much of the world struggle transformed into a propaganda war of unprecedented scope, in which perceptions of strength and weakness-conveyed in words and spirit-are critical elements. Both Helms and Wattenberg would have the President muster academics, peace marchers, public relations experts, labor groups, corporations and churches in a worldwide educational effort to show that the Communist system is a brutal failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perils and Promise | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...comes off as little more than brutality, and Angelo's subsequent breach of his promise, as he orders Claudio's execution, is utterly despicable. Even when the Duke returns in disguise of a friar, and devises an elaborate plan to save Isabelle's honor, spare Claudio's head, and unmask the culprits--his plan is so strangely convoluted--a series of lesser sins to offset greater crimes--that it is barely within the letter, and certainly nowhere near the spirit of the law. The redress of injustice is less than joyful, and certainly less than uncompromised. That this entire ruse...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Good Measure | 7/7/1981 | See Source »

...hypocrite whom Marianne's father, Orgon, has decided that Marianne should wed Tartuffe instead of Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature to Orgon and arrange for him to view secretly Tartuffe's brazen advances on Elmire, Orgon's wife. Orgon, at last convinced, drives Tartuffe from the house (but not without several last-minute complications...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Malapropism | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

Rodgers displays the modesty and lightheadedness appropriate to a French wife, but reveals her character's cleverness at using feminine charm to unmask Tartuffe. In the funnlest scene, Elmire summons Tartuffe, instructing her husband to hide under the table so he may witness the ingrate's treachery for himself. The scene exhibits Moliere's expertise with farce and dramatic suspense...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Malapropism | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

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