Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide... As we could not allow the Whites to be present at a deliberation nor show them a drama that does not concern them, and as, in order to cover up, we have had to fabricate the only one that does concern them... We are what they want...
...news last week of the end of the Attica investigation comes as a grim reminder that brutality and repression need not occur halfway around the world for government officials to hide their consequences and that even when uncovered, indiscriminate governmental violence can go unpunished...
...impossible to understand what created the strange, hilarious blend of cupidity, cowardice and braggadocio that was Fields and that made him an immortal parody of conventional American male values. The forces that formed him are lost in the dark reaches of a youth he tried not merely to hide but to falsify in order to mislead would-be inquirers. By the time the movie takes up his story, there is nothing to be learned about Fields' past that would be helpful in explaining what one cares about, which is his unique...
Stylistically, An American Family in Moscow has considerable problems. It is obvious that the father is the journalist in the family; his writing is far superior to the other's. The mother often uses awkward construction and sometimes misuses words ("the fulsome trees hide the drabness of the gray stone city sitting squat on its giant plain.") The younger children write clearly like children throughout the book. Although they complained to their mother years after the publishing about the immaturity of their prose in the book, their literary freshness is usually charming and always forgivable...
...soon as the journey begins the music comes on and nothing happens until lunchtime. When the box lunches are distributed there is a slight commotion punctuated by titters and whispers. This is because traditionally women are not allowed to eat in public. Unfortunately there is no place to hide on the bus, the journey is long, and the novelty of a box lunch is tempting. Some of the real stoics hold out, but most women break hastily into their provisions and sneak bits of food underneath their veils when they think nobody is looking...