Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Balthus is the biography of the mysterious subject, "a painter of whom nothing is known." These figures are always attractive to biographers, who feel that they get to reveal the figure behind the curtain. Balthus was an enigmatic contemporary artist most noted for his highly sexualized portraits of young girls. His paintings, which often featured sadomasochistic imagery, were deemed so scandalous during their debut in 1934 that one was removed from its public display in Paris...
...Burnout is not a medical term, which complicates the process of gathering exact statistics on burnout. Conversations with students, though, reveal that the feeling is widespread at Harvard...
Bernstein's brilliant melodies coupled with Stephen Sondheim's moving lyrics tell a story of injustice, poverty, crime and, yes, stereotype. But that story is intentionally told to reveal the assumptions inherent in society, to point them out to the audience in order to combat them, not to perpetuate them, as the Amherst petition's signers would have us believe...
...want to learn the darkest strategic assumptions of a presidential campaign, you could spend weeks enticing operatives to reveal their confidential polling data, focus-group surveys and off-the-record-deep-background-not-for-attribution- expose-me-and-I'll-kill-you thoughts. Or you could watch television commercials...
...occasion as will ever come along. So this week they're uncorking two of the biggest wine auctions in history. The headline grabber is the Sotheby's auction, which features more than $10 million worth of wine, all from the cellar of a single European collector. "We can't reveal his identity," says Sotheby's Michael Davis. "Let's just say he's a great connoisseur of wine, life...