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...month-long extension would not mask the Department of Education's serious lack of communication with the schools through the process. After the district court invalidated the law in March the Education Department refused to make a public comment telling schools how to handle the Solomon Amendment. Colleges were left unable to answer student questions on the matter. Eventually, and grudgingly. Education Department officials indicated in June in the Federal Register that the law was void but did not ask colleges to tell their students...
Bowie, who speaks frequently if not persuasively of his shyness, says he created characters to mask his own feelings of inadequacy. "I really didn't feel back then I had too much to show," he says. "What would I do up on a stage? The only thing was to try and conjure up a figure to do the performance for me because I felt I was much safer playing roles. I was writing plays for these people, minimusicals." This, in turn, took on its own dark corollaries, with some assistance from various controlled substances. "I found," Bowie says, "that...
...pour by in an extravagant rush, the plot in fact centers on Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin), as they adjust to their father's death and their mother's quick remarriage to a tyrannical bishop Guve's huge brown eyes watch everything silently, building a mask to ward off the collapse of his world. Through Alexander we watch the movements of the rest of his family, particularly his grandmother (Guna Waugrea), who embodies the wisdom and vision of a true matriarch. An aging actress, she controls her family and tries to face her own mortality...
...slowly upward toward the palm of his left to show how he had zoomed up from underneath and fired into the belly of the third MiG and then watched it drop to the Yalu River. As he talked, his eyes showed no emotion. Glenn long ago learned how to mask his feelings...
...contrast between Harvard and Watsonville immediately impressed and delighted. Buttner when she arrived as a freshman. "I thought that it was incredibly exciting that people liked to talk about books. They read. I wasn't used to that I had to mask that side of me in high school...