Word: secretly
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...translation), however, Sayles has turned a fundamentally disturbing subject matter fit for a sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself merits only the most serious consideration, but Sayles moves much better from family to family than from village to village. And how come they didn't notice all that stuff from...
...secret that members of Congress are not exactly esteemed as dignified arbiters of the public good. Decades of Congress-bashing by opportunistic politicians coupled with high-profile scandals seem to confirm Mark Twain's famous statement that "there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." Representatives such as Jay Kim (R-Calif.), the first member of Congress convicted of a federal crime to cast a vote in the House (he was found guilty of accepting illegal campaign contributions), only confirm this perception...
...Sunday night at Hillel is the best kept secret at Harvard--if you're not a vegetarian," Pollak said...
...descriptions of the mother are well-crafted and sad without being overly cheesy or moralistic. The mother is "like a ghost come to life," when she arrives in Greece, and the narrator thinks "she [the mother] looks beautiful, as always. I have just begun to understand how a secret life can undermine what appears strong on the surface, the way water can eat the foundations of a rock until it becomes an empty cave." Both of these descriptions are toned down from Davidson's usual highly adjectival style, which becomes annoying after some time...
...President of the United States is asserting--for the first time in history--that the Secret Service is prohibited from testifying about "anything" they learn on duty, because cooperating with a criminal investigation would be an "intrusion." If this outrageous claim is upheld, we will have an imperial Presidency far beyond the wildest dreams of Richard Nixon. Simultaneously, the president is asserting that executive privilege prohibits his wife and assistants from testifying--about matters unrelated to the president's official duties, and which cannot be construed as touching upon national defense. If upheld, this too would be a mind-boggling...