Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When pressed to reveal the secret of his success, Fleming admits it is his "tightly organized" lectures and enthusiasm while teaching that draw the crowds. Nonetheless, he refuses to take all the credit and modestly suggests that it is the subject matter--intellectual history--that brings the hordes of students...
...story in which Crockett and Tubbs pose as drug dealers to set a trap for a vicious kidnaper. In the climactic sequence, the cops race to defuse a bomb that has been wired to Trudy, the detective who has served as bait. After a narrow escape, the culprit is revealed to be a police lieutenant gone bad. "I can smell 'em but I can't understand 'em," says a federal agent involved in the case, as Frey's lyrics chime in: "It's the lure of easy money/ It's got a very strong appeal/ It's a losin' proposition...
...speak?") insisted that Speakes has a duty, as in a court of law, to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is nonsense, and Donaldson knows it. At times a press secretary speaks with fingers crossed behind his back. Government has no duty to reveal its private deliberations but risks its truthworthiness when it blatantly misleads. It is in such a context that news stories about the forthcoming summit meeting should be judged. Reagan and his advisers used to say that summits without well-prepared agendas could be harmful; now his people speak of a "get acquainted...
When pressed to reveal the secret of his success, Fleming admits it is his "tightly organized" lectures and enthusiasm while teaching that draw the crowds. Nonetheless, he refuses to take all the credit and modestly suggests that it is the subject matter--intellectual history--that brings the hordes of students...
...hypnotic opening montage, for example. Five travelers on horseback--four men and a woman--are seen moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within...