Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boettcher Hall is typical of the Denver spirit. Part of the exterior walls is also glass, but there is nothing lyrical about them. They reveal a lobby that flaunts not marble or chrome but the building's functional and mechanical workings. On opening night, concertgoers could be heard arranging "to meet up at the duct" at intermission. A few thought they had come in the wrong way and wandered backstage...
...hyperbolic manner. He cheers on conservatives who roar for less government and more cops, grumpily defending a dream of frontier capitalism. He applauds liberals-writing their concerned letters to the editor, demanding more government and less repression, peering worriedly at the future. To Morgan these factions do not reveal a paralysis of opposed fears but a lively and profitable ferment. Wonderful! he marvels, as environmentalists and exploiters ambush each other in federal court. The system works...
...major provisions are particularly offensive. First, reporters could, under certain circumstances, be jailed for refusing to reveal sources. Second, current conspiracy laws, perhaps the most easily abused sections in the Criminal Code, are left untouched. S. 1437 is plagued with such potential disasters...
...this season of snow the fairways of The Country Club, where the Crimson linksters normally cavort in a sunnier clime, look like so many billowing sheets left out to dry. Each day the linksters awake and pine for the white fastness of Brookline to reveal pristine swathes of Merion bluegrass. Each night they gloomily retire...
RECENT SURVEYS REVEAL that each American family spends an average of six hours per night mesmerized by a television set, passively absorbing the fictional universe of stagnant soaps and muddled mysteries. Still, this mere spectator's role cannot satisfy the modern imagination, so it is easy to understand the surging popularity of Citizens' Band (CB) radio, which solicits audience participation in electronic media. A CB operator finds the radio a suitable stage for the enactment of daydreams. Serving as an outlet for the hidden personalities of its users, CB becomes either a creative or a destructive tool for individual fantasies...