Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mailed Profits. To take advantage of the mail statute, the prosecution needed only to prove that the U.S. postal service was used to further a fraudulent act. Former mayoral Press Secretary Earl Bush, for example, was nailed for neglecting to reveal his ownership of an advertising company that held major contracts with O'Hare International Airport. Bush's $202,000 in profits from the company were mailed...
...Peter Brook stripped the Dream bare to reveal a contemporary parable, freeing the play at last from its wrappings of earlier sentimentality-productions shrouded in tulle and Mendelssohn. Post-Brook directors have no choice but to grapple with this evolution. It is a task clearly beyond Edward Berkely, who has directed the revival at Joseph Papp's Newhouse Theater in Manhattan. He has interred the play in 20th century sentimentality. The actors do their own thing, and the play becomes farce. Unloved Helena is a coy baby-talker and Poltergeist Puck a Harlem Globetrotter; the fairy attendants are reduced...
...Paul Conrad's acidulous critiques. The competition for attention may have reduced the impact of graphic art everywhere. Yet the cartoon seems to be gaining influence. No photograph damaged Lyndon Johnson so much as David Levine's waspish drawing of L.B. J. lifting his shirt to reveal a gall bladder scar-in the shape of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon once admitted, "I wouldn't start the morning by looking at Herblock." Even President Ford, gazing forlornly at a gallery of U.S. political cartoons, recently conceded, "The pen is mightier than the politician...
...condition of language are due to much more basic causes than political changes, that in the end language is rooted in the nature of society itself. These two articles and a book--the most recent of what is bound to be much discussion of the American language--reveal as much about the places of their authors in American society as Orwell's piece did about his own isolation...
Sanders's experimentation did reveal the scoring potential of Hines, who netted 11 points in the losing cause. Needleman also scrounged for 11 in a game which saw all 13 Crimson cagers racking up a few points...