Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Officials from the Pentagon and the CIA had asked the committee to delete four seemingly innocuous words ("and greater communications security") before making public a top-secret document on Egypt's military preparations for the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The officials argued that disclosure of the phrase would reveal to Egypt and the Soviet Union that the U.S. had mastered their codes and communications arrangements. But the committee reasoned that the codes undoubtedly had since been changed and insisted on making the words public...
...understanding. He tells his friend François, who is forgiving too. "No one," François explains, "is guilty of what happens in a nightmare." After all this, Charles can turn only to the police. It would not be fair to the pitiless symmetry Chabrol has established to reveal what happens after this point, but the film ends with a fine, fierce flourish...
...passing fancies he sees visions of grace, chivalry and order. Lords sit in their castles while peasants roam the meadow (with a moat between them). Butlers who know their place well serve perfectly prepared drinks to deserving pukka-sahib colonels. At such tenderly sardonic moments, Donleavy seems to reveal himself as an inverted romantic, profoundly sad beneath his disguise because he and the world are no better than they happen...
...lean, made with soft daylight and bouncelight against a white, seamless background. They are also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past the viewer; he confronts Igor Stravinsky eyeball to eyeball; and he has Sculptor June Leaf look through...
...slim blue brochure that falls open like an accordion to reveal a thumbnail photo on each of its rectangular faces (among these are Bok, the chair's namesake George Seferis and an ancient Greek coin labeled "The Cost") was printed this summer. Apparently, that's about the extent of Harvard's participation in the campaign for funds. When asked if the University Development Office was actively arranging for the chair, Charles D. Thompson '48 replied that "actively is a funny word; my office is handling a lot of programs at this point" and conceded that, unlike with other programs...