Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor later subpoenaed the clergyman, John Mellish of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, and asked him to reveal what Sands might have told...
...book's second essay, "The Crocodiles of Yamoussourko," that may reveal the most about Naipaul--more, in fact, than he may have intended. The Naipaul we meet in the first essay is, by his own admission, an innocent. The essay begins with his first moment of artistic creation--a sentence about a family black sheep named Bogart. He wrote the sentence, the first line of his first story, in a BBC staff room in London 30 years...
...sentimentality either, that Places in the Heart derives much of its strength. The dust rising from the wheels of a hurrying flivver, the chilly darkness of a cavernous bank, the way the early morning sun strikes a field of cotton, and the camera's simple crane up to reveal the immensity of the field and of the task before the little band of pickers toiling in it are palpable. Ultimately, it is the play of light more than the play of actors and of words that imparts to movies like this both their singularity and their capacity to strike...
...Laurence Oliver, Kimberly's successor in British intelligence and the man assigned to track down the supposed defector. Having watched Kimberly's supposed funeral on televison, Scaithe does not immediately suspect that his former colleague and friend is back in town but when fingerprints from the Forcign Office reveal that the two men are the same, the affair takes on a heightened sense of emergency Scalthe now recalls the legendary lost documents and correctly deduces that they are the purpose of Kimberly's arrival...
...Although a number of studies indicate that laboratory animals suffer no side effects from ingesting irradiated foods, some experiments did reveal genetic mutations...