Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hide and seek, and tug-of-war were enjoyed by children in Plato's Greece. Ancient Egypt knew the finger-flashing game of paper-scissors-stone, still played around the world-and not only by youngsters. The universality and durability of children's games, the authors say, reveal the traditionalist in every child...
Bets are taken on the genuine blondeness of Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan, and an ingenious method is found to reveal her in the shower. The doctors' young houseboy is encouraged to beat the Korean draft by accelerating his heartbeat with Speed. The pious Major Burns (Robert Duvall) is driven into a strait-jacket when his bed is bugged during a furtive love scene with Hot Lips. Their jubilant moans are broadcast on the camp's public-address system...
...inquest does finally end the matter as far as the law is concerned, it may not completely clear up public uncertainty about the morality and maturity of Kennedy's actions on that long July night. What did Chappaquiddick reveal about his judgment? His reaction under stress? His fitness for higher office? The full inquest transcript could conceivably help resolve some of these doubts when it is released. But Mary Jo Kopechne will still be dead, and many will still wonder whether Kennedy did all he possibly could have done to prevent her death...
Caught in the crossfire was a seemingly unlikely target: Konstantin Stanislavsky, the great Russian actor-teacher. Oddly enough, Stanislavsky has come to symbolize the differences between the two Red goliaths. His realistic "Method" training taught actors to reveal the truth of life; the Chinese dismiss this approach as an expression of bourgeois individualism. When a Chinese paper attacked Stanislavsky as a "paper tiger," Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta shot back that the Chinese theater had been rendered "lifeless and paralyzed" by the Cultural Revolution. It has come to that...
...hero of Shock Corridor (1963) is a reporter obsessed with winning the Pulitzer Prize. After a year of training with a psychiatrist, he feigns neurotic incest- wishes to get committed to a certain asylum. Here live three patients, sole witnesses to a murder whose perpetrator they are unable to reveal. Making friends with them, he helps them recover their rationality so they can reveal the murderer's identity. But he becomes excited and loses control at each witness's moment of revelation, driving each back into insanity without discovering the vital name. Surrounded constantly by sights and sounds that belong...