Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June 2, through sources it refuses to reveal, the Justice Department learned about the cash payments to Billy. Department lawyers then moved rapidly to wrap up the case. Before informing Billy of what they had discovered, however, they were surprised on June 10 when Carter called the department and asked if he could talk...
After his telephone call to the Justice Department on June 10, Billy asked to see Brzezinski the following day to inquire whether he could reveal all his dealings with the Libyans, including his role in seeking Libya's help on the hostages, without violating any national security considerations. Brzezinski quickly summoned Counsel Cutler, and the two advised Billy that he was free to tell the Justice Department about the meetings...
...film genres, the thriller is the most dependent on directorial technique. Using camera tracks, point-of-view shots and disorienting cuts, the director can reveal or conceal, lead and mislead the viewer into a position as vulnerable as that of a fair-haired virgin in an old dark house. De Palma knows all about this. His camera glides down corridors and through rooms as elegantly as a downhill racer with murder on his mind. His actors of ten move at an otherworldly pace that recalls the stylized slowness of silent movies-especially in a wordless sequence that lasts almost half...
...Vita's feelings were reciprocated is ambiguous: the caress and diverted kiss that occur onstage imply rather more than they reveal. Love is an unbalanced equation. The evidence of the play echoes the reflection offered by Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell in his biography of his aunt: "If the test of passion be blindness, then [Virginia's] affections were not very deeply engaged." Virginia sharpens that point in the play: "Life and a lover she thought. It does not scan." For Woolf, her work was her life. While she would drown herself as pitiably as Ophelia...
When all the prodding and poking are done, the patient's spine will be Xrayed. If this does not reveal the exact nature of the problem, the physician may turn to a more complex radiological examination...