Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activities attributed to Casey by North sharply contradicted Casey's repeated declarations of not knowing what North was doing at the NSC. In his last interview before he died, the director in December told TIME that "I knew nothing of any diversions" until the investors threatened to reveal them. The CIA, Casey said, "didn't have any information" on where the contras were getting financial help...
...when Barbie was deported to France by Bolivia, where he had fled to avoid prosecution, many believed that he would never be brought to court because he knew too much about treachery and informants within the French Resistance. Indeed, Barbie had bragged that he would reveal the extent of French collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. Many French feared the result would rip open barely healed wartime divisions among themselves. It turned out, however, that the French followed the trial with calm rather than passion. The proceedings were regarded almost as a history lesson rather than an occasion to refight painful...
Administrators would reply, "How would you have us listen to students? They can't approve every stock transaction we make." One thing the Iran-contra scandal seems to reveal is the fact that Congress cannot meddle in the minutiae of foreign policy. However, Congress most definitely has a role in setting larger policy boundaries. In much the same way, students could not and should not attempt to involve themselves in the day-to-day management of the University. But they can help formulate the larger goals of tenure, investment, and other policies which they now have no influence over, perhaps...
...heat, if you haven't noticed, is off. A month short of its sixth anniversary, MTV is singing a more troubled tune. Ratings have fallen off, and so has much of the excitement. A couple of hours spent watching MTV today reveal how quickly the avant-garde can become passe. With a few exceptions (the dazzling tattoo of animated images that illustrates Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer), videos have settled into a yawn-provoking rut. Typically they feature scenes of the band in performance intercut with snippets of a fanciful "story" or dressed up with now familiar visual gimmicks (cliche...
...Randall also moves as quickly as a film, dropping in and out of the important events of Stevenson's life with the assurance of a Welles or Vidor. In a typical twist, Leland gives the mysterious Mrs. Randall a "secret from the past," only to reveal it to the reader in the first chapter. No cheap thrills here, despite a plot so byzantine it might confuse a Dallas junkie...