Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Historian Barbara Tuchman offered the appropriate judgment: "Could anyone, remembering past attitudes, look at that picture of President Nixon and Chairman Mao in twin armchairs, with slightly queasy smiles bravely worn to conceal their mutual discomfort, and not feel a stunned sense that truth is indeed weirder than fiction?" The title of her address: "Why Policymakers...
...style can sometimes weigh heavily on the material; in The Spider's Stratagem it complements the material, indeed reinforces it. Tara, its name recalling Gone With the Wind and conjuring up phantoms of romantic fiction, is turned into a single huge stage set on which the plot to conceal the treachery is daily re-enacted like an eternal pageant. Bertolucci's ornate camera movements, along with the superbly lush lighting of Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, stress the theatricality and artifice of the concept, making Tara a kind of sun-drenched cloister hewed out of time...
Trying to identify the 29 bodies, one survivor tossed a trepanned skull to another and said in a jocular way, "You should know who this guy is; you ate his brains." Macabre though this sounds, it is also an understandable manifestation of the need of the living to conceal-chiefly from themselves -how devastated they felt by the circumstances of their survival...
...time that the stock sales were going on, Vesco sought to conceal his part in them by pretending that he was out of IOS. He resigned as chairman in September 1971 and later had International Controls sell its IOS stock. But, says the SEC, the stock was sold to Kilmorey Investments, yet another dummy company set up by Vesco in the Bahamas...
...suspects, a bookseller from Padua named Franco Freda. Furthermore, the briefcases in which the bombs were hidden were all purchased in a Padua store only a block from Freda's bookshop. Worst of all, it now appears that high-ranking police officials tried to conceal some of this evidence...