Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members and played them off against other factions. Even venerated Premier Chou En-lai at times cooperated with them. Indeed, the excessive length of time needed to prepare for the case was probably due to internal party disagreements over just how much the trial should be allowed to reveal. Those who want to limit the possible effects on the reputations of Mao and Hua are said to have won out. Nonetheless, as one skeptical Chinese intellectual put it last week, "No matter how secret they keep the trial, everybody knows that without Mao there would have been no Gang...
...MacCaffrey, chairman of the History Department, also said yesterday the Dinnan case should not have been taken to court. "If there's an adequate system of checks and balances in the university, then the possibility of injustice is minimized," MacCaffrey said, adding that he respected Dinnan for refusing to reveal his vote...
...movie is witty and clever when the characters are witty and clever, and banal when they are banal. Some of the lines fizzle, the way lines fizzle in real life, and often these reveal the most about their speakers. Writers often go for laughs at the expense of their characters, and it is a measure of Sayles' compassion that he maintains little ironic distance from them. Yet the writing is not particularly economical, and the language, while sensitive and colorful and realistic, is not heightened or compressed the way great dramatic language must be. Some of the characters keep threatening...
...bought them at a movie-memorabilia shop: gestures from Cagney, a voice as wispy as Peter Lorre's, sardonic smiles from the early John Cassavetes. But they are perfectly suitable to the slapdash style and gravelly tone of a film that uses Method acting to conceal, and then reveal, the workings of a soft old Hollywood heart...
...33rd time (Harvard leads the series, 17-13-2), these two institutional heavyweights--and of late gridiron lightweights--go at each other today. The result may reveal little about the military-industrial complex but plenty about the futures of these two football teams. ARMY 28, HARVARD 24: The turf, the sell-out crowd and the Army offense should conspire to top the Crimson. But the Michie scoreboard should flicker plenty, and a couple of breaks could put this one Harvard...