"reveal" redux

[Laurence Horn]

We beat "the reveal" to death a while back; see e.g. http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/the-big-reveal/
for a review and extension (to "the big reveal").  And I remember debating a couple of weeks ago whether new instances were worth posting.  But just for the benefit of all you Oscar A[DS]-listers this Sunday, the Times Thursday Style section today reveals, with the aid of a full page portrait of a penguin-suited Jake Gyllenhaal, that "a quarter-inch to a half-inch reveal is preferred", according to the text accompanying an arrow pointing to Gyllenhaal's shirt-cuff.  On the other hand Rule 6 on the inside page of the article maintains that "the half-inch rule for the cuff reveal has always been inflexible".  So maybe this is a partial reveal after all.

LH

  
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