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What Steve has instead is awful, desperate Al (Brooks is, of course, a peerless portrayer of all the great American falsities -- piety, humility and the good cheer with which we habitually mask desperation). Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously. The script, by Brooks, Andrew Bergman and Monica Johnson, draws a specific parallel between Steve and another primitive creature imported to amuse jaded New Yorkers -- King Kong -- and it is a measure of director Michael Ritchie's deftness that he gets the right kind of laughs from the device. Ritchie avoids...
...They mask and they are loud, never sentimental and wimpy. They command their characters and the stage with farcial abandon. Yenta Pesha (Sokol) throws giant plastic pickles at her husband, Gronam Ox (Levin), whenever be does something stupid. She wags her tongue, spits and gags attempting some of the more delicate words of the Yiddish language, and her flexible face will always tell you what she's (not) thinking even if her words do not. In other words, she knows how to put on a show; it has little to do with drama, at least the type proffered...
...Oralism was only sporadically successful, and schools that subscribed to it or to related techniques found that students still learned ASL on the sly. "Try as they might, they were unable to stamp out sign language," says Northeastern University linguist Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community. Yet "signing" would wait another century for its renaissance: in the 1960s, when linguists certified it as just as autonomous, flexible and rich as English, it became the core of an identity movement that still flourishes today. More than half a million ASL speakers -- a group sometimes plagued...
Lynn, Massachusetts -- After $4,466 was stolen from the Equitable Cooperative Bank in February, the robber was tracked down minutes later in his getaway car -- a hailed taxicab. Identification was made easier by the fact that the criminal was still wearing the mask he used during the stickup...
...apparent good tidings, however, mask a host of troubles as the fall season gets under way. Fox has thrown a fresh scare into the other networks, stealing several major-market affiliates as well as CBS's Sunday-afternoon pro-football franchise. The number of alternatives, on both cable and broadcast stations, keeps growing, and the remote control has made them easier than ever to find. Indeed, the networks' recent ratings turnabout was due largely to special events like the Winter Olympics, and there's no guarantee the audience erosion won't resume this fall...