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Word: revealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dave Winfield name the ingredients of a Big Mac in under four seconds and if so, will he reveal what's in the special sauce...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Waiting for Your Mother's Cookies | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

...conflicting thoughts about his captor. Police say that Stayner seemed fond of Parnell, who he said "spoiled" him. When Stayner finally left, he took along a dog named Queenie, a present from Parnell. Stayner was defensive about Parnell in his talks with police and reluctant at first to reveal his name. Yet Stayner also said that he had no desire to see him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Escaping Dad | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...that father had just taken. After countless experiments over the next four years, Land devised the procedure that captured an image on special paper pressed against film and developing solution, which simultaneously produced a negative and positive print. The film and paper could be separated after 60 sec. to reveal the picture. During the 1950s and 1960s, the wizard of light turned out a steady stream of new cameras, faster developing films and color films. During its go-go Wall Street era, Polaroid became the epitome of a glamour stock. A $1,000 investment in the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Polaroid's Land Steps Down | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Willie Shawcross is not the chain-smoking, scrappy-looking reporter you'd imagine as Sideshow's author. Shawcross, tall, quiet, soft-spoken, strikes one as a British academic, looking for the fact that may reveal the truth, but not aiming to promote himself...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Cambodia, Wide Open | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...characters reveal themselves through theatrical gestures: Bunny, swilling a bottle of Scotch ("horse piss") on her balcony and threatening to jump; Lucille presiding over a spaghetti dinner like Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu, stabbing stray meatballs on others' plates with birdlike speed; Francis excoriating his family and friends and demolishing his birthday cake; his father describing the day his wife left home, whereupon he took a pickaxe, smashed the sidewalk, and planted a fig tree that has grown into a majestic symbol of le Beau Geste...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Smashing the Sidewalk | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

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