Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Flaherty, arrives to film the documentary Man of Aran. Billy, the cripple of the title (Ruaidhri Conroy, who played the role in London), is deluded enough to think he might get a part in the movie. Or maybe not so deluded. The plot is layered with deceptions that reveal the desperation of these small-minded characters. If it lacks the freezing perfection of Beauty Queen, Cripple is still a work of surprises and unexpected depths...
...February 1957, Mao drew his thoughts on China together in the form of a rambling speech on "The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Mao's notes for the speech reveal the curious mixture of jocularity and cruelty, of utopian visions and blinkered perceptions, that lay at the heart of his character. Mao admitted that 15% or more of the Chinese people were hungry and that some critics felt a "disgust" with Marxism. He spoke too of the hundreds of thousands who had died in the revolution so far, but firmly rebutted figures--quoted in Hong Kong newspapers--that...
Presidents since George Washington have invoked some form of the doctrine, which protects the White House from having to reveal communications between the President and his advisers in matters of national security or "legitimate public interest." Executive privilege has always been a murky point of law--it is implied, not specified, in the Constitution--but it became downright sinister during Watergate when Richard Nixon invoked it in an attempt to block release of his secret Oval Office tapes. Ever since, Executive privilege has been associated with Executive cover-up, which tends to overlook the legitimate argument that a President...
Even now, years after the most damning files were almost certainly purged, the records reveal ugly abuses of power. The commission's investigators spied on almost anyone, black or white, who publicly promoted racial equality--most often local civil rights workers but also visiting Yankees. Commission investigators documented the whereabouts, finances and sexual habits of civil rights leaders. They fed some of the information to the targets' employers and the Ku Klux Klan. Untold numbers of people were fired and others beaten and perhaps even killed after the commission targeted them...
...even the weaker films are fascinating for what they reveal about the processes of making interpretive art. As Ma says during a discussion with Morris, "I think that what this music is attempting to describe is something that can take all of the imagination of lots of people put together, and still it's trying to describe something that we can't quite grasp." That living, ineffable something about Bach's music, of course, is what makes it art; if you could pin that down, the music would wither. One imagines the same might be true...