Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SLEUTH'S MOST STRIKING features, as anyone who's seen the film or the original play will tell you, are the surprising deceptions which reveal themselves every half-hour or so. Andrew Wyke, an English mystery writer (Sir Laurence Olivier), is at his Gothic estate when his wife's lover, a hairdresser named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), arrives. Wyke proposes a shrewd plot: he will help Tindle "steal" the Wyke jewels, in order to defraud the insurance company. But that, we find, is not quite Wyke's real goal. And, a still later clever-and-bold twist tells us what...
...senior Administration official told The Crimson last night that an announcement is imminent. The official declined to reveal the identity of the new dean, but said he expected that the position would be filled for about three months on a caretaker basis...
...seminar, section and tutorial. We have already taken steps to reduce the emphasis on large lectures by subsidizing efforts to introduce self-paced instruction and to explore ways of curtailing lectures in favor of small-group instruction. But much remains to be done. Recent surveys of the College reveal a steady decline in the participation of Faculty members in tutorial. Like course sections, tutorial is staffed predominantly by graduate students. The graduate teaching fellows are often selected primarily on the basis of financial need rather than experience or ability to teach. Many of the tutors and section heads receive little...
...said that he composed the bill in conjunction with the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM). The CLUM has expressed concern in the past that forcing newsmen to reveal their sources restricts freedom of the press...
...source of the problem--and of the sequence's effectiveness--lies in what is different from film. The moments which sequences show best are too brief to be approciated in the rush of the motion picture; when frozen and separated they reveal a movement that is more delicate and complex. Sequences have something to teach about film itself: how each shot can be composed to lead into the next...