Word: complicit
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...world's biggest self-promoters, punk rocker COURTNEY LOVE and Brit documentarian Nick Broomfield, aren't getting along. Broomfield's new movie, Kurt and Courtney, which examines and rejects allegations that Love was complicit in her husband's death, has been cut from the Sundance Film Festival because of a legal threat over music rights. Says Broomfield: "The person I was most frightened of making a film about is Margaret Thatcher. I think Courtney Love is pretty small fry in comparison." On Saturday Broomfield said there were absolutely no plans to screen his film...
ALGIERS: A European Union delegation began talks with Algeria Tuesday, prodded by a growing suspicion that government hardliners are complicit in the slaughter of as many as 1,100 civilians there in the past month. Allegations of government involvement were amplified last week when two Algerian policemen told a British newspaper they had participated, under orders, in massacres of civilians...
...Epps: for deceiving the rally organizers, Iying, harassing protesters, avoiding contact with students, being complicit in the violation of rules published by the University prior to Jiang's visit...
Hersh's account of Kennedy's policies in Vietnam is perhaps the flimsiest part of this book. Much of what he says is well known: that Kennedy was deeply complicit in the 1963 coup that toppled Ngo Dinh Diem. But Hersh insists that Kennedy not only approved the coup but also knew about and at least acquiesced in plans to murder Diem and his brother. His evidence for this is almost nonexistent: a cryptic, secondhand account of a conversation between Kennedy and CIA agent Edward Lansdale, a vague thirdhand account of a secret visit to Diem...
...becomes jarring and shocking at these points, usually credits for a film. Yet this shock value obscures some of the facts of the case. The mass suicide by the Branch Davidians is insufficiently covered. The gratuitous use of graphic images disgusts the viewer, implying that the ATF was automatically complicit simply because the Davidians died so gruesomely...