Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...structure and values. The curious reset is that although one might expect them to be more mundane, the things Tina says are more powerful. When you talk about society or life in general, you often make generalizations and simplifications. When talking honestly about things closer to yourself, however, you reveal the internal contradictions and conflicts that are in everyone. I suppose that is the moral of this review that in the details lies the beauty...
WHILE FILM is the instrument of justice it is also the instrument of men's drives: so that the determination to reveal the truth is not a pure motive, but is qualified by hatred and revenge. Legal lynching, "the law that says if you kill somebody you gotta be killed," is no better than the extra-legal kind. Thus the tracks-in, which increase in number about the middle of the film, lose our complete acquiescence in moving forward...
Savage Skepticism. Some of the best are listed above. The Autobiography is his will and testament. The speeches and The Man and His Times, a gathering of recollections by people who knew Malcolm X, add subtlety and substance to it. Read in retrospect, they reveal Malcolm X as the most fascinating, convincing and, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced...
Rubin stressed that the purpose of his study was not to reveal any basic discovery, but rather to develop a number of preliminary techniques for a study of love...
Pearlmutter refused to reveal the nature of the remaining plagues except for the Plague of Blackness on March 7. "On that day, we will block out the sun," Pearlmutter said...