Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clever, literate, elliptical writing is the best in comics today. The art is a departure from the flat, lurid drawing associated with comics ever since Roy Lichtenstein made his fortune with it; Miller uses shadows and suggestions to conceal the absurd aspects of his medium--we all saw how silly a man really looks in a Batman suit--and inventive panel arrangement to exploit its strengths. Klaus Janson's inking adds depth to the art, and the coloring, by Lynn Varley, is subtle and effective...
...Carre excels at depicting this multitier personality. The most convincing dinner-party chatter, pillow talk and professional banter conceal howling secrets. Magnus' deepest one is that he is a double agent, a fact that becomes apparent about the same time readers realize they have fallen through the civilized surface of the novel. Betrayal comes naturally to Pym, himself the victim of bad faith and disappointments, revealed in flashbacks of youth, student days and beginnings as an operative...
Tenants said the name of the camera shop was replaced yesterday with the name of the store's owner and charged that the move is a Harvard ploy to conceal the misuse of its property...
STRIP AWAY THAT humor and one is left with a grim reality. As is, the movie is filled with an almost unrelenting--even unbearable--realism. For all his affection for that city of "people, traffic, and restaurants," Allen cannot conceal the fact that New York City can be a lonely place. It is a place of lonely singles who entrust their lives to doctors and analysts, where highbrow culture is merely an expensive distraction from ennui, and where material riches can not compensate for spiritual bankruptcy...
...That should have been unacceptable to him. It would be preposterous to assume that a scholar should be supervised in this respect," Andrews said. "What is so egregious about it is that in the whole tradition of scholarship you do not conceal facts that can create distrust by people who find them...