Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concerns a practice that no one there defends: leaking information to the press. This investigation was launched by Freeh on Aug. 1 and aims to uncover the person or persons who tipped reporters that the FBI suspected Jewell. Freeh decreed early in his tenure that leaking is forbidden and could result in dismissal. Some have charged that the FBI was trying to use the press to squeeze Jewell, but agency officials argue persuasively that the leaks actually hurt their cause. If Jewell had not learned through the media that he was under investigation, they say, he might have been profitably...
Agents have been forbidden to respond to Whitehurst's specific charges, but several claim that although he is a superior scientist, he would become petulant or vindictive when his superiors disagreed with him. "He was an impossible kind of guy to work with," says an official involved in the World Trade Center case. "If you were doing an investigation in a schoolhouse and there was an alphabet above the board and L and Z were missing, Fred would not venture an opinion that that had been an alphabet...
...American Film Institute is showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...
...hailed as peace-bearing heroes when they captured the capital two weeks ago. In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. The shunning of women was impossible to ignore. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions of the Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices." Meanwhile, men were given a month to grow beards, and the photographing of human figures--as well as certain buildings, military operations and "sensitive incidents"--was forbidden. Amnesty...
...This forbidden tinge is played up through scenes in the dark, such as the opening, which uses the instantly recognizable, timeless set-up of two kids (Ruth and Anna) with a flash-light trading words in bed. Arruda's Peter, so very often positioned near the door and the outside world beyond it, provides a contrasting authority figure...