Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast as a nice innocent kid trying to spend a quiet week in Bermuda with her boy friend. Out scuba-diving, they discover tantalizing clues to both treasures. Very soon she is being forced to strip in front of the assembled baddies, though she could not possibly conceal the object they seek -a large medallion-on her pretty person. A little later they invade her room dressed in voodoo getups, smear her body with blood and seem to do something rather peculiar with a chicken claw they're carrying. The sadism is excessive for this context, and the employment...
Visitors will find that Langley looks much like other airport-modern Government office buildings. It has more guards than most (including some behind thick glass walls on the executive floor), more desktop boxes with various-colored covers to conceal their contents, more plastic wastebaskets whose contents are for burning, more locked cabinets, steel vaults and restricted areas. Tourists presumably will not see the more arcane laboratories, operations and communications centers, and photo-interpretation rooms...
This MIT sophomore is now dreaming daily at the Carpenter Center for the general public. Admission is free. He sleeps behind a glass panel, under satin sheets that a sign says are designed to "conceal and reveal" his sleeping form. Viewers are asked to remove their shoes before they enter--the floor is spongy and feels dreamy to walk on. The sleeping subject behind the glass has his brain and body activity constantly monitored, and readings are displayed on a large screen next to him. He is the highlight of the exhibit--a real sleeper...
...least fifteen tough questions I will put to him [Carter], and we'll see how he manages those." The Chancellor made no secret of his distaste for what he regards as Carter's preachy moralism on such issues as human rights and nuclear proliferation. Nor did he conceal his bitter resentment over what he felt was Carter's persistent schoolmasterly advice to Bonn on its duty to do more to stimulate its economy...
...coming to grips with his own illegitimacy. He demands to know why Erikson gave up his step-father's name--Homburger--when he came to America, and chose the name of "Erikson," "son of Erik," instead. Was it, Berman muses, an attempt on Erikson's part to conceal his own roots...