Word: revealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Griffith, again, was wrong, as wrong as he was about the Klan's role in his beloved South. Tango intrigues us best by photographing not thought but thoughts. No one comes to understand the strange American widower that Brando plays--why he won't reveal his name, why he shouts to his dead wife, visits her lover--but rather one understands that one simply cannot understand the conflicting thoughts at which Brando hints...
That same collage of photographic thought works with better humor for Jack Nicholson in PRIZZI'S HONOR (Sack Copley Place). At first glance he plays the amiable Mafia hit man as simply as he slips into his Brooklyn accent, but his animated face and agile acting reveal a character far more likeable and intriguing than some cotton-mouthed thug...
...good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce's entirely justifiable homicide...
During the past year, the University has also written to all portfolio companies with operations in South Africa urging them to oppose the influx control laws, which are central to the apartheid system. The replies of these companies reveal that most are now taking basic steps in this area, either by aiding their black employees to overcome the obstacles that apartheid raises against their choice of where to live and work, by supporting organizations working against the influx control laws, or by meeting directly with officials of the South African government to urge repeal of the laws. We continue...
...accounts, beginning in 1960, were the first to take us behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of great men, their great strategists, plotting the conquest of the greatest office in the world. His premise--in the context of contemporary reporting, which recorded little more than the candidates' public appearances--was that campaigns were infinitely more complex, more sophisticated, and more fun, than previously assumed...