Word: concealments
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...search of new talent, but Casey is dramatically stillborn from her first scenes. There's a lot of staring out of an imaginary window with significant facial expressions but Casey does best with her clever humor and is rarely credible as a serious character. Mann has tried to conceal this with fancy, and attention-absorbing, footwork. But with fourteen scenes, her steps rapidly grow familiar. The formula is for a surprise or hanging suspense finale in every episode. This would be fine if it ever relented, but finally predictability pushes The Bull over the edge of serious comedy...
...President a standing ovation when he arrives to deliver his State of the Union address this week. Richard Nixon will wave, smile broadly, radiate friendliness, probably even compliment the lawmakers on their high dedication to the common good. Yet the ceremonial show of civility, demanded by custom, will scarcely conceal the fact that this is an election year, and that relations between the Hill and the White House are at a peak of partisanship unmatched since Harry Truman ran against a "do-nothing" 80th Congress...
...with cirrhosis of the liver, the results of his alcoholism. Martha would come in for her third operation for adhesions resulting from stab wounds." During the discussion, Vaillant prompted the students and actors with questions. What were George and Martha angry about? What defense mechanisms did they use to conceal their difficulties...
...George, the class concluded that he was a masochist who often tried to conceal his aggressiveness behind a facade of passivity. Explained Vaillant: "George presents himself as a martyr, but he manages to torture everybody. His indifference is provocative, and that's one of the ways you diagnose someone as what we call 'passive-aggressive' and not indifferent...
...including George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower-have argued that a Chief Executive must accord his advisers the full freedom to offer their candid counsel without being forced to tell Congress or the nation's newspapers what it was. Yet the doctrine has sometimes been invoked to conceal bumbling, or political pressures, to suppress valid arguments against the decisions a President finally makes, or to hide outright corruption within an Administration...