Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his workout, Tiant ventured next door to the swimming pool, and stripped to reveal a tight bathing suit and a physique that would make Scott Meadow drool. After a few locker room autographs, Luis went out to swim...
MAZURSKY'S FASCINATION with images ultimately limits him to surface details. The characters play "truth" at a party only to reveal that underneath their masks are just more masks. As Bernstein says, with the blankets over his head, all their lives are fictions since it is safer to remain "under the covers." But without any three-dimensional character to compare them to, the final judgment on their image remains ambiguous. The life of a young artist in the fifties seems attractive on Mazursky's screen, but was it really, after all, this...
...them past or present Harvard professors--seem mild. None of them so much as implies that Social Security should be made voluntary, labor unions broken up or every conceivable public project turned over to private ownership; nor are they hysterically anti-Communist. But taken together, these two volumes reveal the emergence of an American intellectual Right on the European model, basing its conservatism on a collective--rather than an individualist--understanding of society...
...idea. "I decided to strike a blow for the writer," he says, "and against the idea that the director is the sole auteur of a film Some are-Fellini, Bergman. But most directors are parasites, peculiarly dependent on the talents of writers whose names they very rarely reveal to the press." More immediate is a March visit to the U.S. promoting 1876. Vidal seems unenthusiastic: "When I think about it, I just see 10,000 Ramada Inns from one end of the country to the other...
...Cambodian socialism to warn Americans away from considering alternatives to capitalism here is dishonest; we face vastly different--and potentially far better--conditions for changing our economic system. But the press' treatment of Cambodia is no isolated instance; coverage of Allende's Chile, and of Portugal today would reveal similarly distorted coverage. Why? A.J. Liebling once said, "Freedom of the press is for those who own one." And that...