Word: revealing
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Hart, wearing black cowboy boots and an ersatz Cartier watch, remains something of a mystery man, a cross between brooding Jay Gatsby from the West and Star Trek's ultrarational Mr. Spock from the future. "I never reveal myself or who I am," he said in 1972. Hart once suggested his relationship with Lee was "a reform marriage": they have separated twice, and reconciled most recently in the spring of 1982. In public they seem distant, rarely glancing at each other or touching. Hart is an avid reader. Not long ago, a reporter suggested he read Ironweed, William Kennedy...
Test results may reveal next to nothing in terms of human sexual activity. However, Ellison said the results helpful in showing the effects of certain dieting regimens and rapid weight loss, an obsession with much of the health-conscious American public...
...roots and discussing the writing of her Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. Those who first come to know Walker through this remarkable piece of fiction will be delighted by her lucid and insightful essays, which are infused with as much warmth and wisdom as her fiction, but moreover reveal a Walker that differs appreciably from the groping, just-awakening character of The Color Purple's Celie...
...Well "Harvard Parent" concedes that "the gods and goddesses who collect full salaries must be left to their mountain-top citadels": there is no alternative but to leave the dirty work to those of us who Labour in the valley of diminutive wages. But we sweating apprentices must not reveal to our clients that there may be some loose cogs in the grand machine. Certainly our "own eccentricities" and "insecurities" must be kept well hidden, like those "dingy apartments" which the graduate student is often forced to live in After all, student kind cannot bear very much reality...
...that these new laws have failed to provide the cure for the sort of racial discrimination that, as statistics reveal, still plagues the death penalty? For one thing, such racial discrimination is present not only in sentencing decisions, but also in the earlier stages of the criminal justice process Moreover, appellate review regardless of the percentage of death sentences overturned, does nothing to redress the imbalance of treatment by race...