Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mount the plays, Mnouchkine, 53, "studied the Greek language for the first time in my life." But she rejected the use of classical masks, because they "conceal rather than reveal character," and chose instead Asian-style face painting. Although she adopted the Greek idea of a singing and dancing chorus, she pragmatically trimmed it from a classical 50 people to about 15 and substituted Indian sound and movement...
...University of California medical school in San Francisco, provides a slightly more elaborate definition: "One person intends to mislead another, doing so deliberately, without prior notification of this purpose, and without having been explicitly asked to do so by the target. There are two primary ways to lie: to conceal and to falsify...
President Bush lacks a coherent vision beyond his own reelection, said Dukakis, who made little effort to conceal his political bias...
...draft, and George Bush was up to his neck in the Iran-contra affair. Assume these conclusions (as most people do) because available evidence and common sense effectively refute the candidates' denials. Now what? Leave aside the actions themselves; they are less troublesome than the dissembling designed to conceal them. Is one lie somehow worse than the other? Does one reflect more negatively than the other on a politician's fitness to serve as President...
...staffs charge each other with demanding first dibs on the most desirable stars. Dennis Miller, whose talk show was canceled after six months of low ratings and C-list guests, blames The Tonight Show for strong-arm booking tactics. David Letterman, NBC's later- night wit who couldn't conceal his chagrin at being snubbed for Johnny Carson's job, now has other networks and syndicators strewing his restless passage with blank checks. NBC has already retained Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey as Letterman's potential replacement...