Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stamped my passport and handed it back to me. She must have also pressed a hidden "panic" button, because soon, a stern man from Airport Security approached me. "May I see your passport, please...
These religionists' inconsistency suggests that they are selectively reading the scriptures to justify their own prejudice. Religion is not the source of their objection to gay rights; rather, their objection is plain, simple bigotry hidden under the cloak of piety. Alternatively, these religionists might not be aware of large parts of the scriptures. This piece should save them the trouble of having to read those parts...
...subsidy points up one of the hidden consequences of all corporate welfare--it favors one group of businessmen over another. In this case, the government gives Western farmers an advantage over Eastern farmers, who pay for their own wells, pumps and lakes. Says Dave Sheppard Jr., a fourth-generation farmer who grows tomatoes, green peppers, iceberg lettuce and cucumbers on 1,200 acres in Cumberland County, N.J.: "We don't get any subsidies...
...beautifully nuanced performance as the film's emotional center, and Joan Allen as his (Pleasantville) mother: independently and together, they account for nearly all of the movie's most poignant moments. The fact that Allen plays the same role she always does, i.e., the repressed wife/mother figure with a hidden reservior of intense feeling, would be more annoying if she didn't do it so superbly, exactly right. Next to her, William Macy is merely adequate, though often quite funny, as the impotent and increasingly bewildered father figure; a fine actor, he risks being typecast as a comic butt...
...your hopeful eyes, the large box under the tree at Christmas promised hidden delights. Indeed, as you eagerly tore open wrapping paper, you revealed a gray compact box, two squarish, unwieldy controllers, a zapper gun, and the ultimate in cartridges: "Super Mario Bros." with "Duck Hunt." 8-bit utopia was yours! That first night, you tried desperately to shoot all of those damn ducks, and rescue Princess Toadstool from the clutches of the evil Bowser. In the soft glow of the T.V. screen, your face was radiant and peaceful...