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...name was accompanied by a serve that sprayed aces and by ground strokes that delivered tennis balls with laser-like precision deep into his opponent's backhand. In fact, his game was the antithesis of his public persona. It was the fire that flowed out from behind an impassive mask and through his fingertips. In John McPhee's 1969 book Levels of the Game, Davis Cup teammate and occasional opponent Clark Graebner described Ashe's game: "He comes out on the court and he's tight for a while, then he hits a few good shots and he feels...
...communicate to a bright 17-year-old, you have communicated to everyone," says director Gerald Margolis. Without question, the museum's overall message comes through clearly. At the end of the tolerance exhibits, the host provocateur appears one last time. "That's it," he says, peering from behind a mask out of a big bank of monitors. "I am giving up all responsibility." The screens then dissolve into the words WHO IS RESPONSIBLE...
Holly Golightly and her nameless cat inhabit a barely furnished apartment in a Manhattan brownstone. Golightly peeks out from behind her door one morning to find that she has a new downstairs neighbor. Even wearing a wrinkled tuxedo shirt, a pastel blue sleeping mask pushed up on her forehead and purple-tassled earplugs in her ears, Hepburn conjures an almost unearthly elegance onscreen...
More typically, matters are not confronted directly. Antigay servicemen single out targets, spreading rumors behind their back, carving butt pirate and die faggot on their lockers and spraying their beds with sexual lubricant. To avoid becoming a target, gay men sometimes play along, trying to mask their pain. They smirk gamely at gay jokes and go to lengths to cloak their true identity. Some invent girlfriends or wives, or even date women. Blatant lies about sexual orientation, however, risk perjury charges if a homosexual comes under investigation. Most, therefore, simply disclose nothing about their personal life. "The result...
With such a dead end likely, many experts are skeptical about how serious Eagleburger and the U.S. government are when they speak of war crimes. Some critics believe that Washington is raising the issue to mask its unwillingness to use force against the criminals in Yugoslavia. The public charges, says Rosalyn Higgins, a professor of international law at the London School of Economics, reflect "impotence or inability for political reasons...