Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monitoring service. Koch sent an indignant letter to Weinberger demanding that he publicly deny the conversation with the Saudis. Weinberger wrote back that "this 'socalled transcript' is a complete fabrication and a very crude attempt at disinformation." But Koch demanded a public disavowal. When Weinberger refused to reveal the details of a "classified diplomatic exchange," Koch gave copies of the letters to the press...
...victims, electric shock and sexual abuse. An oft-used tactic is called dullab, in which a person is hung from a suspended tire and beaten with cables and whips. In one testimony, a 15-year-old boy told of being whipped and threatened with blindness if he did not reveal where his father was. Another student described a soundproof torture room in Aleppo that featured a machine called "the black slave." Recounted the youth: "When switched on, a very hot and sharp metal skewer enters the rear, burning...
...most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards all three contestants a crown, proving the royal dictum: "What you can do is more important than what you look like," wisdom that applies all the way up the food chain...
...actions until their effects are irreversible. Other big institutions-corporations, unions, hospitals, police forces-prefer to cloak their decision-making process and their performance from the scrutiny of the public, whose lives may be deeply affected. And despite the passage of shield laws to protect journalists from having to reveal sources, they are regularly subpoenaed to testify about what they have reported...
...Carousel Animal (Zephyr; 127 pages; $19.95) Fraley, an Oakland, Calif, restorer of antique merry-go-round animals, closes the distance between this forgotten martial art and the magic of the amusement park. Gary Sinick's photographs of stallions frozen in mid-prance, oversize rabbits, frogs and chickens reveal the wealth of detail and coloration that distinguished the finest carousel craftsmen of the U.S. and Europe. The form gave wide latitude to the imagination. English Carver C.J. Spooner, for example, commemorated British heroes of the Boer War with a series of centaurs. Among them: a figure that is half horse...