Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cartoonish air is enhanced by the cheapo production--$5 million, miniscule by today's standards, considering the six eras and elaborate scenery. Every now and then shots reveal ostensibly majestic sights to be obvious models. The ocean in the Titanic sequence looks more like a backyard pool...
...they are--raw, condescending attempts by an educated ex-English professor to make fun of the common folk. Fortunately, Cain later loosened up on the aint's and the you all's, and began constructing his characters around more than just their accents. Yet despite their shortcomings these dialogues reveal just enough of what would become widely known as Cain's "hard-boiled" writing to warrant inclusion in the collection, and, as Norman Mailer said of his own early writings in Advertisements for Myself, they allow the reader the luxury of seeing a writer at his worst as well...
...illegal profits from their jobs and that there was large-scale fraud in the prison furniture shop. Moreover, he had given his fiancee tape recordings of prison conversations that she had locked up in a safe deposit box. State and federal investigators listened to the tapes but refused to reveal their contents. Declares Guard Ken Mock, 38: "I have no doubt that Gerry...
...toll from the attack stood at five killed and 28 wounded, including four Americans. Sadat was in the hospital in a coma, blood gushing from his mouth. Bullets and shrapnel had ripped into the left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would reveal that death occurred at 2:40 p.m., two hours after the attack began, and that it was due to "violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity, where the left lung and major blood vessels below it were torn." A doctor emerged from the operating room, his face...
...week of sketchy information followed, as members of the committee steadfastly refused to reveal the specific results of their meetings, saying only that they were optimistic that a decision would be reached in the near future...