Word: revealed
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...games of a people reveal a great deal about them," Marshall McLuhan is quoted as saying at the beginning of this book. At the end of Game Over, the head of Nintendo leads a successful effort to purchase the Seattle Mariners baseball team. It's symbolic in a bittersweet way; the game of the present has absorbed the game of the past...
...slightly more sophisticated version of "Your mother!" "No, yours!" In real life, and in French movies, people pretend to get along when they talk. They keep things light, genial, talking around the issues that burn them up inside. Some love affairs never begin because people are afraid to reveal what they feel; "I love you" is so hard to say. Some marriages can last a lifetime on the tacit agreement that hostilities will go unexpressed. The static is in the silences...
...Crimson reports that the 11.8 percent rate of return on Harvard's $5 billion endowment in fiscal 1992 was lower than that of 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. Documents filed with the internal Revenue Service several months later reveal that several of Harvard's top money managers received hefty compensation packages for their work over the same year. One senior vice president of Harvard Management Company earned more than $1.2 million in salary and bonuses...
...with an odd sort of detachment, declare that all the fierce debate of Capitol Hill is really just a show, and that after hours he is really a friend of his political enemies. If it is a show, why should the American people take it seriously once the actors reveal it as an illusion? Will the voting public simply forget about the issues underlying political debate and be content to be entertained...
...attempt this particular hurdle, and her pals turned to Masako, a good choice since she already had superior penmanship. "I saw this," she wrote confidently on their papers, until someone in the class squealed. In the dustup that followed, Owada spoke out, saying each student should choose whether to reveal her scores. Recalls a classmate: "At a time when everyone took the teacher's word as absolute, she already sensed some right and wrong...