Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caused it too, even without having felt it before: sitting in the dark and looking at each formal event, each cultural artifact being presented to me on the screen, as a piece of human design whose significance had to be read. Presumably closer and closer viewing and speculation would reveal a more basic design-some corner of the way things work or perhaps the way people's minds work (there's always a confusion in bourgeois philosophizing about which...
...THOSE who are wondering whether the Faculty is serious about curriculum reform, the vote today on Special Concentrations may reveal their true feelings. Admittedly it seems unfair to read into the vote on a single proposal the Faculty's intentions concerning the general issue of curriculum reform. But since this is the first curriculum legislation to be put to a vote and, more important, since it will allow future changes to be responsive to real needs, Faculty watchers can justifiably make such an interpretation...
THERE actually was a time in this country when we used to ask ourselves periodically which "new" Richard Nixon was the "real" Richard Nixon. No longer. We have adjusted to the fact that the real Nixon-if he exists at all-will never reveal himself; it is enough now to merely try and decipher all the nuances of the current Nixon and let it go at that...
...guard's discretion, that you may drop without a trace into the cesspool of the prison system, of the hole, isolation, solitary. It is the style of guerilla field diaries. If George Jackson had not been the sort of man, honest, uncompromising and brilliant, that his letters reveal him to be, he would not have been considered a trouble-maker by the prison authorities; his letters would not be worth reading and he would not have been charged with murder...
WHEN the formal method of a sequence makes itself clear it also generates a great optimism that explains the film's title, joyful knowing. Sequences that reveal their own analysis can be genuinely moving to those progressive people who rejoice in discovering how sounds and images mean. Who want films that will provoke criticism, films in which le sens joue, instead of spectacles to dull their critical faculties...