Word: unmasked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mystery: an uninvited guest arrives one day and claims that he is Tara’s oldest sister’s bastard son. This possible imposter sends Tara on a search that leads her to discover the uninvited and unknown within her own past. The journey allows Tara to unmask the characters of her personal play—her parents, her sisters, her son, and, eventually, herself...
...wall would become the greatest public relations disaster of our age, with endless pictures of desperate men and women, rushing the barrier and being shot down, and then left to die on the concrete no man's land. Kennedy and other Presidents would use it as a stage to unmask the what Ronald Reagan called "the evil empire...
...about tech analysts' causing the stock market to inflate and then burst has got to stop. It's way too convenient. The lesson here isn't that the analysts are shills. It's that greed and speculation come disguised, and if you don't accept your own failure to unmask those wealth raiders, you're bound to fall victim next time around...
...also possible that the surgery doesn't cause mental dysfunction so much as unmask it, in the way that a stress test can reveal an underlying heart condition. After all, if the arteries are clogged, there's a good chance that at least a few blood vessels in your head are having trouble getting oxygen to your brain. Confusion and memory problems can also be a sign of depression, which has its own causes and treatments...
...wants to unmask Saddam and make it clear that he's the guy who has been causing all the suffering of Iraqis. He has more money in his pocket today than ten years ago, but he's just sitting on it and letting his people starve. Although the Europeans don't quite accept this, the Americans believe Saddam is winning the propaganda war by making the U.S. look like the bad guys. And they want to turn that around. But the other part, which is somewhat conflicting, is that they presumably need some kind of stick over his head...