Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy emerges as far more incisive than Nixon, who let discussions ramble inconclusively. Kennedy listened to advisers argue policy proposals, then asked quick questions, never hesitating to reveal his own lack of expertise. "Can I just ask what was our deficit from last year?" he inquired of Budget Bureau Director David Bell in a meeting on whether to seek tax cuts. Kennedy did not understand the function of the Small Business Administration, asking: "Who can get something from the Small Business Administration that they can't get from the local bank...
...suffer painful flashbacks of her past in a mental hospital and to recall her inability to deal with people. Shipley creates a very neurotic and tense Aston who has tremendous difficulty finishing thoughts. Her taut facial expressions constantly match her nervous and fidgety personality. Shipley has many opportunities to reveal her feelings to the audience, most notably in a long monologue when she describes her experiences in the mental hospital with electric shock treatments. She is able to effectively display her character's anger and frustration when trying to do anything productive...
...trap backfired when reporters from Advertising Age, a trade publication, began to ask questions. Their story resulted in red faces all around. Advertising Age insists that its "journalistic mission" required it to reveal the operation. Meanwhile, the authorities are still keeping close watch on the post office box in Prospect, Ill., where a few coupons have already been sent for redemption...
...time on details in order to paint the big picture well," recalled a Western diplomat in Lagos. One handy example of that diligence: Pickering has been studying, and doubtless mastering, Spanish. "That," remarked Secretary of State George Shultz, "is where he showed great foresight." The coming months will reveal what other strengths he and Motley can bring to a troubled area...
...Washington, pioneering Sex Therapists William Masters and Virginia Johnson called a press conference to defend themselves against charges that their sex research is cryptic, slipshod and so vaguely defined that other experts cannot tell how many patients have actually been cured of their sexual woes. Have the two ever revealed their criteria for successful sex therapy? asked a reporter. "Innumerable times," answered an exasperated Masters. Did he ever reveal-sotto voce in a San Francisco bar-that a woman who has one orgasm in five years is cured of anorgasm? "I never said it," he snapped...