Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Observers estimate the student vote will comprise about four per cent of all votes cast and the figures reveal that, perhaps, more than 15 per cent of the student body is registered, making a total of about 2000 votes...
...answered. No less a scientist than Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley further espoused the idea in his 1863 Man's Place in Nature. Darwin won many new converts to his concept in 1871 with the publication of The Descent of Man. Most convincing of all, the fossil record continued to reveal that man had not always existed in his present form. That more primitive men might once have walked the earth was suggested when a skull was found at Gibraltar in 1848 that was more evolved than the skulls of apes but less so than that of modern man. Then...
...glib tongue seldom strained to reduce the quirks of everyday life to irresistibly quotable witticisms or the sentiments of his countrymen to stirring rhetoric. Schary's script, however, never allows enough room for the full power of Roosevelt's formidable personality, as portrayed by the ubiquitous Robert Vaughn, to reveal itself. Before a scene can build sufficient dramtic tension, an unsatisfying and petty denouement intrudes. Before the audience can become relaxed with Roosevelt's humorous side, the script plunges both character and crowd into the tedium of yet another event. In an effort to include as many "events" from Roosevelt...
With the exception of the delicate Chaplin, the other performers are as unacceptable as Skala, belting out their monologues, Broadway-style, in a series of relentless closeups. Only in the evocative dance routines, staged by Choreographer Patricia Birch, does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived...
...reveal) the humiliations and failures--worst of all, the destructive power--of those who seek a way out of the shell of restrictions and conventions, out of the pervasive boredom and the stifling despair, out of the painful marital situations and the endemic social falsity, into what they take to be a vibrant and desirable life...