Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meanings people find in the ink patterns of a Rorschach test reveal their personality. Americans have been intently studying, as they would Rorschach patterns, the images of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter-not to find out about themselves, but about the candidates. The first TV debate failed to bring that one lightning revelation of character that many had hoped for. Thus there is no substitute for studying the candidates through careful reporting and psychological surmise...
...Carter granted the interview in the first place. Commented Robert Bailey, 47, a bakery operator from Freemont, Calif.: "I'm a Baptist myself, and for a Bible-totin' Baptist to say those things-well, they were crude. I don't see why he had to reveal all his deep, inner thoughts-to make a national confession. It certainly doesn't make you a great...
...robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda to Clarence Darrow. The idea of having a character who is seemingly Coretta King (Judyann Elder), deliver lengthy asides on the ideals of King violates another internal law of drama: never explain - always reveal...
...interview earlier this week, Martinez Soler said the terrorists, whom he characterized as Francoist right-wing extremists, beat him, sprayed acid in his face, demanded unsuccessfully that he reveal the sources of a controversial article published in a magazine he edits and threatened to kill his wife if the two failed to emigrate immediately...
...fact, Stare does not jump at the chance to reveal his work for Kellogg and Nabisco. In the interview early last week he said he accepts no consulting fees and that he had received only travel expenses for his appearance before the Senate committee. When queried later in the week about the two retainers, Stare explained that he sees retainers as different from consulting fees; the latter are one-time payments, not a supplementary salary, he said. While he technically may not have accepted a fee for testifying at the hearings on behalf of Kellogg and Nabisco...