Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of the woman's history will be heard in the courtroom under Florida's law protecting rape victims is uncertain. As the judge decided last week whether to introduce the victim's untorn blue bra and Victoria's Secret black panties as evidence (yes) and whether to reveal to the jury that she is an unwed mother (no), an estimated 200 journalists converged on the town to cover what is already the most publicized rape trial in history. Anyone looking for a break from the media circus can drive a few minutes to Sprinkles Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop...
...doorman in a fancy building on the Upper East Side. Throughout the novel, we meet the eccentrictenants of the building, from a man whose apartment is filled with candy to an oral surgeon who replaces teeth with artificial and permanent white smiles. Juan's goal is to reveal to these people the figurative "door" through which they may walk to find truth and spiritual contentment...
...interesting premise, but one which Arenas handles clumsily. It seems as if he had an idea, linked that idea with a series of images, strung the chapters together, and called it a book. Unfortunately, there is that much lack of subtlety here. First, Juan's desire to reveal this spiritual door is hardly believable--Arenas rarely mentions it except as a device to justify Juan's spending time in the tenants' apartments. It is tacked on and never explored except in a throwaway chapter which concludes the novel. This is the chief example of Arenas's grand ambition to pack...
...Philip Leder of Harvard University School of Medicine told the New York Times. "He didn't come to you after the experiment was successful. He came at the beginning, because it might be quite uninteresting when it's all finished." Given all the attention and elevated hopes, Rosenberg should reveal his results -- even if they are uninteresting -- with the same alacrity he shows in announcing the start of an experiment...
Nothing in recent American life--not Watergate, not Iran-contra, not the debate on the Persian Gulf War--has served to reveal more clearly than the Thomas episode the fragility of the American social experiment. Some will say, as they say at the close of every political crisis, "When all is said and done, the system worked, the people were heard and justice was done...