Word: concealments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Best Seller." Only the world of crime is left as "a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event." Boorstin's buckshot is indiscriminate and incessant; he blasts away at such riddled targets as publicity handouts and celebrity endorsements and searches out new underworlds to conquer. Museums merely conceal the "vital organs of a living culture," air travel "robs me of the landscape," highway travel discourages wayside stops. As a way of "meeting new people," sighs Boorstin, "even hitchhikers are slowly becoming obsolete...
Despite their revealing interest in politics, most of those choosing Quincy made little attempt to conceal their attraction to its physical facilities. In answer to "Why did you pick this House?" one student wrote "material comfort," another, "Go down and take a look for yourself...
There is beauty: Suzanne Pleshette, a recruit from television whose eyelashes, "the longest in Hollywood," do not quite conceal her meticulously well-rehearsed starlet smile...
...tale is trite, the script clumsy, and the camera work grossly faked. Though the lovers wander all over Paris, the Cathedral of Notre Dame turns up in the background practically everywhere they go, almost as if it were following them around like a little dog. To conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like...
Returning to Blida a convinced nationalist, Benkhedda wrote patriotic pamphlets and organized a group to paint the town red with slogans for Algerian independence. He vividly recalls being surprised by the police one night. He and his friends just barely managed to conceal their brushes and paint cans beneath their flowing djellabas. The police took it for granted that the freshly painted signs could not be the work of the supposedly illiterate and frightened Moslems who stood before them...