Word: confessionally
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The Fifth Amendment allows citizens to remain silent. But it looks bad. Emanations of a man's guilt, as Freud once put it, "ooze from all his pores." Even the hard, grim stonewall of the Nixon White House eventually crumbled. Richard Nixon, in fact, is a fascinating case study...
In the final year of his life, as in the final scene of a well-made comedy, virtue was rewarded: Wodehouse received a knighthood. As he scribbled vigorously into his 90s, he made a rare confession: "I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or...
FORTUNATELY, it takes more than over-directing to take the life out of a Gilbert and Sullivan winner like Patience. Gilbert's lyrics have vet to be topped by any songwriter for sheer cleverness: in Bunthorne's confession that he is an "aesthetic sham," to name just one memorable example...
But the IRS could scarcely afford to admit that last-minute filing makes a difference. Such a confession would undoubtedly cause an even greater avalanche of last-minute returns and make the agency's task Herculean. Nonetheless, last year the IRS audited only 2.02% of the 93 million individual...
THE TRIO OF DIRECTORS first became aware of Kazem's story in April. 1980, when they saw him interviewed on a television talk show. In the short interview, a small portion of which appears at the opening of the film. Kazem Ala told of the tortures he had both witnessed...