Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story and serve a dual function: to entertain and to teach...
...whether Oliver North will go on trial for his role in the Iran-contra fiasco, nonlawyers had reason to wonder about the motives of some of the players. On the one hand, the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who oozed patriotism from misty eyes during the congressional hearings, threatened to reveal some of the nation's most sensitive secrets if the trial proceeds. President Reagan, who has declared North innocent, said last week that he will not pardon his ex-NSC aide in advance of a trial but neither will he allow many of the classified documents to be aired...
...Kate, Eugene's loving, efficient, over-stressed mother. Cottingham is very effective. Her portrayal of this domineering character gives this production an underlying consistency which it might otherwise have lacked. The orders she gives her children are as mandates from on high. When Kate does, upon rare occasion, reveal her emotions, they are believable and evoke sympathy...
...court cannot be an umpire, deciding dispassionately on issues of law. While there are grains of truth in this perception, decisions such as the Yonkers case, which require the ongoing participation of a federal judge to ensure the equal rights of an entire class of citizens, reveal a judicial system which is coming into its own, not as an umpire, but as a relief pitcher for democracy...
Four hours into the flight, NASA reported that "all systems of the orbiter are performing satisfactorily." The next report will come 24 hours before Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The government did not reveal the duration of the flight, but it is expected to last three to five days...