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The clowns are neither the bewigged bozos who gave you nightmares as a child nor the bemasked Italian Harlequins that gave you nightmares as a college student, but instead red-nosed, wordless caricatures that embody certain Metro tropes like Guy From Baltimore Who Hits on All the Ladies (Jon Reynolds) or Uptight Intern With a Laugh Like a Fire Alarm (Micael Bogar) or Tourist Who Apparently Has Never Before Seen a Map (Lenore Sack).
Theater review of 'Separated at Birth' at Mead Theatre Lab 2010
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Another wealthy playboy/crimefighter with a faithful bemasked sidekick?
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I love the air pirates, and the bemasked welcoming committee with the sound blaster, and the torn up buildings, and the zombies, and the … and the … well, and pretty much everything, actually.
January 10, 2008 2008
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I love the air pirates, and the bemasked welcoming committee with the sound blaster, and the torn up buildings, and the zombies, and the … and the … well, and pretty much everything, actually.
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Ten minutes later the Sacker came back to find the chief engineer of theEnterprise seated on the cube, begoggled and bemasked, hands resting on his thighs.
The Three-Minute Universe Barbara Paul 1990
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When he was satisfied that Yoko had retired, with a reasonable chance that her parents might be sleeping, he crept toward the room which from long study he had spotted as hers, and in some mysterious way known only in the vilkges, she had anticipated that this was the night he would visit her, so the shoji had been left unlocked, and in a moment he slipped bemasked into the room.
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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Reaching platinum status (100,000 albums sold) is a tough go in the current musical climate yet Iowa natives / bemasked metal horde
! Exclaim.ca - News 2009
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To all those compliments the doleful lady answered nothing; and although Dorothea made her again larger offers of her service, yet stood she, ever silent, until the bemasked gentleman (whom the lackey said the rest did obey) came over and said to Dorothea, Lady, do not trouble yourself to offer anything to that woman, for she is of a most ungrateful nature, and is never wont to gratify any courtesy, nor do you seek her to answer unto your demands, if you would not hear some lie from her mouth.
The Fourth Book. IX. Which Treats of Many Rare Successes Befallen in the Inn 1909
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