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...surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells would pick up more oxygen and keep their fragile systems working better so that surgery would be safer...
...beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart?" Or, as she adjusts the plastic welder's mask designed to protect her from flying chips and plaster: "Darling, could you hold the gun this way and shoot down the alley? Try it, sweetheart, and see if it works." The actors affectionately call her "Mother...
...Bertolt Brecht. First produced in 1926, and excitingly performed in this Eric Bentley production, Man uncannily foreshadows the process of brainwashing, the loss of identity, and the kind of society where every man wears a mask to hide the face he hasn...
...undergone torture in a World War II prison camp. To Mills, also, goes the show stopper, should the film stop for a splendid job. Barrow, overpowered with anger at Sinclair's flagrant violation of orders grips the stem of his martini glass, his face burning into a mask of hatred. He cannot continue his polite conversation; he cannot speak; he cannot move. Finally a reaction comes, and he puts down the glass with a shaking hand as he goes to put a stop to the insult to his commands. In the putting down of the glass is indicated the ultimate...
...dentist's chair, a terrified girl imagines that the drill hovering above her has the "shape of a great hooded bird." And his small scope is deceptive. His characters are afraid of life only because they are in need of love. Their peevishness, spitefulness and British reserve all mask an inner anguish, conceal layers of loneliness that Larkin peels off with precision...