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...James novel with wealthy Americans darting about wide-eyed in full-dress infatuation. Lurie shows us the procession of the Druids on Parliament Hill but does not spare us their absurdity, the anachronistic spectacles under their ancient hoods, their clearly modern British faces. But neither can Lurie mask her love for Vinnie's adopted city, flaws...
More important even than money power is the power of television. Television is the main battleground for public opinion in our time, and professional campaign designers try to outwit television news masters in a game of mask-ing-and-unmasking, or "I've got a secret" against "This is their secret." Television reaches its climax in the so-called great debates. For forgotten reasons these debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, wander like a traveling road show from city to city. They are vital as a display of contending personalities, but they have degenerated into quiz shows...
...John W. Hinckley wrote, "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychotic poet." It took this country's legal system over a year and a half to take Hinckley at his word, and decide that his psychosis was more than just the imagined mask of a calculating evader of justice. Over a fifteen month period-- from the shooting spree of March 1981 to the June verdict of the following year--Hinckley was to emerge as the enigmatic author and protagonist of what he himself called "my melodrama...
...through a collection of short stories, the following passage stood out. He selected a part of black plastic frames an much thick, with hinged corner that stuck out from the cheek bones like a horse's blinders, pieces heavy enough to bend the ear. They were a kind of mask that hid half his face...
Several dozen students rallied yesterday afternoon in front of University Hall, draping a Ku Klux Klan mask on the statue of John Harvard, to call attention to what they called the lack of tenured minority faculty members at Harvard...