Word: concealing
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There is a truth at the heart of this novel, although that doesn't make it good. The truth is that names can reveal the hidden essence of a thing, but they can also conceal it. That is an insight the reader will arrive at long before Whitehead's protagonist does (you may possibly be aware of it before opening the book). In the meantime he mopes around town riffing on the ephemera of small-town America and indulging his obsession with brand names. The tone is light, by turns over- and underwritten. Our hero seems as uninterested...
...surrealistic feminist document begins with a pseudo-parody of the modern hip-hop video, as a baggily clothed black man bounces his hand next to Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and points at his car’s rims. To emphasize this, the frame shifts to conceal Marshall’s head. Only her body can be seen. It’s possible that all this easy symbolism is actually a send up of easy symbolism; it could easily be allegory or self parody. While there is a self-consciousness to the weirdness here, I can?...
...that time about a purported proposal by President Bush to bomb al-Jazeera. The tape suggested that bin Laden is alive, if not quite well. A longtime bin Laden watcher, French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, speculates that the decision not to release a videotape may reflect a desire to conceal the deterioration of his physical condition. And if bin Laden's voice sounded more muted than in his last message, in December 2004, so did his rhetoric. He warned of forthcoming attacks on U.S. soil but didn't convey a sense of immediacy. "They are in the planning stages...
...Focus folks didn't conceal the subject matter (as, for instance, Miramax did with The Crying Game). "We never tried to hide what it was, so we never had to play defense," says Schamus. Still, in some cities the ads showed the married couples rather than the two men, implying that the sexual action is mostly hetero. Not everyone is fooled. "Some straight friends said they want to see it, but it's not the type of movie you can go see with the guys," said G.P. Theriot, 31, after seeing the film with his girlfriend in Dallas...
...night?s hottest accessory? The baby bump. Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Weisz, Debi Mazar and Mira Sorvino all sported one. After months of keeping their growing forms under wraps, the actresses could no longer conceal their bellies in red carpet garb. Fortunately they also got to show off their maternal glows...