Word: judd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Walker of Pennsylvania accused the Democrats of handling the investigation as "business as usual, while they have special prosecutors and all of that for the briefing-book scandal." Many Republicans also claim that the difference in publicity being given the two controversies reveals, in the words of Congressman Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the "ultimate hypocrisy" of the press...
...turn the legislation into a March Christmas tree. The House Appropriations Committee, while drafting the bill, tacked on a $110 million assortment of mass-transit projects for committee members' districts that gave Republicans plenty to complain about. "This bill is frenzied feeding at the public trough," fumed Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. But Democrat-sponsored floor amendments ultimately struck the offending provision, substituted $171 million in mass-transit aid, and required that $1.8 billion of the final bill be spent in the nation's deepest pockets of unemployment...
...loosely based on the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz from a SoHo street in 1979, is an earnest, fatally muddled attempt to dramatize this dilemma. A boy is missing; his mother (Kate Nelligan) and father (David Dukes) wait and wait, not daring to despair; a sympathetic detective (Judd Hirsch) trudges after tantalizing leads; a kind of life goes...
...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's house-boy suddenly becomes a major suspect, and the details of his sordid past...
...often tightly organized, its objective is to create a mood in the listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement of the '60s, led by such artists as Sculptors Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd) invites the audience to revel in hypnotic sounds and take delight when one prolonged, incessantly repeated passage suddenly gives way to another. It is a kind of musical kaleidoscope whose each new turn can reveal sudden, unexpected beauties...