Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curtain goes up to reveal Mary Tyler Moore sketching a naked young man. She plays a woman not unlike herself, a greeting-card artist seeking to outgrow a Goody Two-Shoes image in her work and life. The youth she is drawing -- or maybe only imagines she is drawing -- is her son's Dartmouth roommate. He is compact and dark. Or lanky and blond. Two actors, John K. Linton and Barry Tubb, have the role but do not alternate: they are often onstage at the same time, embodying different aspects of the character. For that matter, Moore is not alone...
Ronald Reagan asserts that race no longer divides America, yet incidents at the Citadel, Smith College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst prove him wrong. Occurring on college campuses, which formerly produced the very civil rights activists that helped ignite the movement of the 1960s, these incidents reveal the extent to which America remains ignorant of where it has been and what King hoped it could become...
Autobiographical essays, like the one by fiction writer Marita O. Bonner, "On Being Young and Colored," reveal a special and personal insight into the evolving Black experience across the barriers of time and prejudice...
...Kennedy misses a big Contra aid vote. Sources reveal that right-wingers secretly gave the congressman tickets to see a tractor pull and motocross race twinbill at a local arena. "I tried to get some other guys on the committee to go with me, but I guess they never learned how to have a good time." Amway salesman George Bachrach, a former Eighth District candidate, said of "young Joe's" absence: "I would have been there...
Even sophisticated audiences get a childlike enjoyment out of scenic prestidigitation, and when the anteroom of Orlofsky's villa rotates in the second act to reveal a banquet hall with a sit-down dinner for 57, the marvel is rewarded with outbursts of applause. A revolving stage, however, should not be the highlight of the evening...