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Word: revealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumor mill is a semicovert part of the information media, says Kapferer, who holds an American Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University and teaches at France's School for Advanced Commercial Studies. He believes rumors reveal the desires, fears and obsessions of a society. "They are," he says, "an echo of ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Psst! Wait Till You Hear This | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...every day that in the course of such a dance, the person strews off most of his or her clothes to reveal a G-string or lacy black underwear. But lately, students have begun to take advantage of this slightly off-color gift--the strip-a-gram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sending Strip-a-grams: A Different Kind of Gift | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...reveal my identity would be to imply that the source of meaning can be found in the author. It would imply that an individual unified subject exists and can elucidate the world around us. Since we all know that authors have nothing to do with texts, I don't matter anyway and I might even be dead. Consider me a collective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Negotiators from both the university and the union said that they made some progress in meetings this week when Cornell adjusted its earlier offers, but they were unwilling to reveal the details of the new proposals...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Cornell Workers Set Strike Deadline | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...memos in the Tower report reveal both Ollie the dutiful Marine and Ollie the renegade cowboy. The commission found that North kept National Security Adviser John Poindexter "exhaustively informed" of his actions through a computer network they code-named "Private Blank Check." The name aptly describes the license Poindexter gave his aide to carry out foreign policy through questionable initiatives in the name of the U.S. In negotiations with Iranian officials, he announced that the U.S. was tilting away from its official policy of neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war, and he fabricated fantastic stories of meetings with the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North's Blank Check | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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