Word: apprehending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting...
Even after the extension of police powers with the announcement of the War Measures Aet, authorities failed to identify and apprehend any but a few of the most outspoken and publicly-known FLQ members, such as Lemieux, who was one of the first to be arrested after the measure went into effect...
...believe that when Federal funds are involved any American would be opposed to immediate action to apprehend and try the people involved," Ford said...
...order the rule of law that works, instead of a code word that doesn't work," said Lindsay. In his view, politicians and lawyers have patently failed to cope with such practical issues as whether people feel free to walk to a city newsstand after dark, whether police apprehend criminals, whether courts actually convict the guilty, and whether correctional systems really rehabilitate...