Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie has been adapted by Mark Medoff from his own 1973 off-Broadway play. Like so many well-made American dramas, it is a long day's journey into night: the characters slowly reveal the sad truths of their misbegotten lives. The difference between Medoff s play and other recent exercises in theatrical soul baring (from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to That Championship Season) is the catalyst that provokes the truthtelling. It is not booze that loosens the characters' tongues...
Speaking on the task force's behalf, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano admitted that "the incidence of leukemia produced by low levels of radiation may be higher than scientists previously thought." But the report added: "Because the clinical features of cancer do not reveal its cause, it is impossible to distinguish the few [people] with radiogenic cancer from the larger group whose cancer was caused by other factors." What is more, it usually is impossible to determine just how large a dose of radiation a victim received. Consequently, although Califano professed dissatisfaction with the recommended safe level of 170 millirems...
When Andrews talks about his game, his utterances reveal modesty and some criticism. His self-analyses are candid: he said of his physical strength, "I'm probably one of the weakest kids out there, Experience shows that when I get hit I fall down or I lose the puck. That's a problem with my game...
...aside by moviegoers who venture to see Real Life. Comic Albert Brooks' first feature is not as dark as Interiors, but neither is it designed as a hoot. What Brooks has wrought is a scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time. By refusing to pander to the crowd, Brooks puts a healthy distance between himself and such recent comics turned film makers...
Though you can't see the College's problems on a walk through the Yard, administrators emphasize the size and the seriousness of Harvard's needs. Most students have already met the chief culprit, inflation, through burgeoning annual increases in college costs. But cost hikes reveal only part of the problem...