Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite lifelike. Camilla Newman, whose most interesting feature is her name, is for most of the book just another pretty face fronting an ambitious, competitive young lawyer. As Weston begins to make it by himself, Camilla develops more personal qualities of bitchiness and vulnerability. Even the ogre-like partners reveal extenuating circumstances behind their nearly cannabalistic behavior...
...Prescott Bush, was a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. George Bush went to Phillips Academy, Andover, and to Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, before moving to Texas in 1948, where he later helped found and run the Zapata Petroleum Corp. Bush promised last week to reveal his income taxes for the past five years and his net worth "to dispel the notion that I am a rich Texas something-or-other." He is rich enough. Bush sold his oil-industry holdings in 1966 when he was first elected to Congress, but his net worth is estimated...
Woodcock and Davis do, however, give ample consideration to objections to the theory: that it is incapable of making useful predictions; that it is so general and qualitative as to reveal nothing we don't already know; that alternative mathematical models already exist; and that its proponents have based their claims of its wide applicability on a few phenomena well-suited to the model. Finally, two of the harshest critics have charged that in substituting pure theory for "the hard work of learning the facts about the world," idealistic mathematicians have used the theory "deduce the world by thought alone...
...into some egregious mistakes in reporting and analysis. It's crucial to Halberstam's argument, for instance, that when the Los Angeles Times finally gave Nixon "fair" coverage in the 1962 California governor's race, asked tough questions, allowed his opponent equal space. Nixon would break down and reveal his paranoia. So Halberstam completely distorts the famous "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more" press conference after Nixon lost that race. Quoting only one Nixon sentence, Halberstam claims that Nixon completely lost control and launched into a screed against the press. Aha! the reader is supposed...
Mariel Hemingway as Allen's 17-year-old lover suffers the same verbal excess. When Allen tells her he has found another woman, she responds, "We have laughs together. We have good times. Your concerns are my concerns. We have good sex." The curtain of the drama rips to reveal a scriptwriter desperately hanging more significance on the lines than they can handle...