Word: block
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie traces Alex Selky's disappearance after his mother sends him off on his two-block walk to school. When he does not come home later that afternoon, the movie focuses on the mother's frantic attempt to discover his fate. The police's investigation of Alex's disappearance provides a loose framework for the rest of the film, as detective Al Manetti (Judd Hirsck) tries to maintain momentum despite the scarcity of clues. As time passes and the search deteriorate to the level of psychic and hypnotic investigation, clues begin to appear with a disturbing haphazardness; the mother...
Because zoning changes require a three-quarters majority for passage, the council's three conservative Independent members were able to block the proposed changes. In interviews after the meeting, they said they opposed passing anything in the short course of two weeks...
...African Affairs, was berated by Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, who called the linkage idea "blackmail." Said Mugabe: "The U.S.'s insistence on this linkage has given solace to the South African regime." The Zimbabwean leader declared that the U.S. position had "introduced a stumbling block that may well impede the decolonization process, albeit temporarily...
...Friends of the Everglades, the 2,800-member organization she founded in 1970, she has battled civilization's encroachments in an effort to preserve and restore North America's only subtropical zone. Douglas and her recruits, dubbed Marjory's Army, have scored impressive victories, helping to block construction of an international jetport in the marshland, forcing the closing of two drainage canals and strengthening restrictions on real estate developers. Those successes are all the more impressive since they depend on a shoestring budget: the Friends of the Everglades' treasury currently contains only $12,000. Says Douglas...
...that onetime associates sketch of L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 71, founder and guiding inspiration of the Church of Scientology. As proclaimed by Hubbard, Scientology is a religion that sees life as a relentless struggle to erase painful mental images (called "engrams" in the cult's jargon) that block a person from achieving his full potential and that may accumulate through his successive incarnations. Hubbard has insisted that he lived through a series of incarnations and that he was in fact 74 trillion years...