Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schumer, a high-intensity newspaper reporter in college, organizes her version of The Harvard Experience in Retrospect into 10 chapters. The first four chronicle the undergraduate years of the author and her friends, the last six reveal the successes, failures and ambivalent musings of six female members of the Class of '74 nearly a decade later. (The six are composites, drawn from interviews with 50 classmates conducted in the early 1980s...
...except for stomach cancer. Yet they criticized the NCI's reliance on these rates as proof of gains against cancer, noting that some types of the disease, such as breast and prostate cancers, can progress for ten or 15 years before proving fatal. Also, the GAO observed, survival rates reveal nothing about the life expectancy or quality of life of the victims: "Using survival rates alone to reach conclusions about general progress is therefore inappropriate...
...especially impressive works, "The BirchGrove" (1885-89) and "Silence" (1898) reflect theinfluence of the later French impressionists aswell: the interplay of the light on the trees andin the water, the looser brushstrokes and thelighter pallette combine to reveal what thepainter Nesterov has described as "that which ishumble and innermost within every Russianlandscape--its soul, its charm...
...arrest. In this account, he and an unidentified corporal visited Stockholm together last year and went on a drinking binge in the Marine quarters at the U.S. embassy there. The booze loosened Lonetree enough for him not only to describe his passion for Seina but also to reveal hints of a KGB connection. Later, when the two drinking buddies met in Vienna, where Lonetree was posted after Moscow, they enjoyed another blast. This time Lonetree allegedly mentioned Bracy's involvement as well...
Working from the principle that too much is never enough, Russell unloads his inventory of weird imagery. Candied corpses and puddles of rancid goo. A woman's nipples that open to reveal eyes. Claire, filthy and feral, a dead rat in her mouth. Stuff like that. In such films as The Devils and Altered States, Russell found a conjurer's balance between sense and surrealism. But with this catalog of chic atrocities he cannot shock, he can only embarrass. For an artist as canny as Russell, that's crazy...