Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simpson murder trial. The possibility of a mistrial was raised when a visibly emotional Judge Lance Ito agreed with the prosecution that he might be unable to act impartially if 11 hours of taped interviews with prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman were introduced as evidence. The interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses framing suspects, and 30 instances of his using the word nigger-language he earlier testified...
Charles Krauthammer is living in the 18th century. In "Why We Must Contain China" [ESSAY, July 31], he talks about "renewing the U.S.-Japan alliance" to safeguard our Pacific security. What Pacific security? The Vietnam War was fought, in the Krauthammerian sense, to contain China. We still haven't quite recovered from it, emotionally or financially. And now must we rush into the arms of our former enemies, Japan and Vietnam, as Krauthammer proposes, to contain ''the emerging giant of the 21st century"? I am all for pressuring China to liberalize its stance on human rights and other issues...
Krauthammer is right to be alarmed by Chinese military expansion and regional troublemaking. However, he is putting the cart before the horse in proposing that the U.S. put aside its differences with other nations in the region--Vietnam, India, Japan and Russia--in order to "contain" China. Whatever threat China's military poses is felt by its neighbors first. America and the rest of the world are distant targets. It makes more sense for the U.S. government to push for a resolution of our economic and political problems with China's neighbors rather than to expect those countries to take...
...suspicious of simple answers, so I am conscious of the many simplifications that my arguments contain. But although I do not pretend to understand entirely the complicated motives of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I find it extremely hard to believe that either president acted out of some idealistic desire to protect basic human rights and democracy in Panama or Kuwait. The motives behind their actions seem almost transparent, and it is tempting to label them nothing but materialistic...
...first phrases, following the famous horn solo, did not contain the emphasis usually accorded to them; in the context of historical performances, they appeared routine. But momentousness was, in general, not his goal. The defining trait of Ax's playing on Saturday was a striking immediacy. Rather than using time to create intense emotional drama, as Sviatoslav Richter did in his landmark 1960 performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorg, Ax manifested an incessant urge to build in an efficient and almost austere manner...