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...cheated the Nigerian masses before in the name of free enterprise and unregulated accumulation of private wealth. Today, as they play the cocktail circuit at the seats of political reaction in Portugal, Spain and South Africa, they are once again concealing their particularistic class interests behind the tribal mask. It is not they who are dying; it is not they who are starving; it is their captive Biafran subjects...
...pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Gruff, unfailingly honest and highly literate, Maney assailed the theater for its "notorious affair with mediocrity," and engaged in monumental bouts with such employers as Orson Welles and Billy Rose. "Producing," he once said, "is the Mardi Gras of the professions- anyone with a mask and enthusiasm can bounce into it." Yet in his tart, tough way, he was fond of the theater. As he once put it: "Pressagentry can be a gay life for one with detachment, and with an understanding of why the theater's children behave the way they...
...North Vietnamese have finally realized that their monotonal demand for a complete bombing halt is no longer productive in moving either the U.S. or world opinion; therefore, they expect some kind of breakthrough in Paris during the coming weeks. The North Vietnamese are showing some signs of removing the mask of intransigence that they have worn since the talks began at Paris' Majestic Hotel seven weeks ago. Unbending a bit, Thuy and his aides even took in the horse races at the fashionable Auteuil track in the Bois de Boulogne. They are also spending more and more time talking...
What makes Indian folk art engaging, despite its perishable wood and terra cotta, are the extravagant whimsies with which its untutored creators embellish formal Hindu legend and gods. The destroyer Shiva, as portrayed by the aboriginal Maria tribe of Madhya Pradesh in a ritual mask, takes on the unkempt, disheveled appearance of a wandering mendicant...
...that the sundial people are moving to Low and Fayer-weather to obstruct the police. I put vaseline on my face. I also put vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above the socks and a cigarette filter in each nostril and carefully refold my plastic bag gas mask so I'll be able to put it me, quickly with the holes at the back of my head so my hair will absorb the gas and I'll be able to breathe long enough to cool the cannister with a CO(2) fire extinguisher and pick it up with...