Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturation Reporting," as Wolfe called it, was the crucial innovation. If the writer could move inside (and sometimes in with) his subject so that the two of them felt absolutely natural together, only then could the journalist begin to unearth the story. The Literary Gentleman With A Seat in the Grandstand gave way to George Plimpton playing football with the Detroit Lions. Novelists fumed. But some signed up, people like Gore Vidal, William Styron and especially Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, who began to use journalistic techniques in their writing...
...that a few conservation measures could cut energy consumption by 20 per cent in just one year. And Gerrity says that over in Byerly Hall, one man--Paul Morvay, assistant to the director of financial aid--underspent his budget by $700,000 simply by doing the legwork necessary to unearth obscure sources...
...regrets about revealing the murders, the incident that led to his dismissal. "Murder is non-negotiable," he says passionately. "Inmates don't care what you say, they watch what you do. Once I knew about those murders, I was an accomplice unless I made some effort to unearth them, even if that meant losing my job. They couldn't have trusted me anymore...
...unearth the roots of this angst, a little history is in order...
With Purcell's music lending a touch of formal majesty, the performers move from discord to concord in a progress that sinks deep into the layers of Shakespeare's meanings, to emerge restored and invigorated. Stage movement as much as language becomes a spade they use to unearth poetic ambiguities, in several mimes enacted to bits of Purcell's score: while a soprano sings a mournful aria, Stephen Rowe's Demetrius and Lisa Sloan's Helena wander about in a ghostly love-dance, with Helena reaching for and grasping Demetrius just as he turns away; after the night of illusion...