Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artistic response to Freud's theories has enabled film directors to have a field day with movies exploring the human psyche. Hitchcock flicks have carved a niche for themselves in cinematographic history and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde school of screenplay has enabled writers like Steven King to probe the inner regions of the mind...
Aside from a weekly Friday conference, the Brethren usually communicate in writing. Memos ("letters," in quaint court jargon) are exchanged, as the Justices probe one another for the parameters of a decision. The final opinions are longer and more heavily footnoted than in the past...
...doubts about his running mate's financial affairs. The House Ethics Committee announced that it would investigate whether Geraldine Ferraro, as a Congresswoman, had improperly claimed an exemption from disclosing the finances of her husband John Zaccaro. The committee had no choice politically except to proceed with a probe, once the conservative Washington Legal Foundation had formally challenged Ferraro's right to the exemption. Its investigation, which probably will not be completed before Congress adjourns Oct. 4, does not necessarily mean Ferraro did anything wrong. But it is at least a jarring reminder of the furor that bogged...
...satisfied that no agency of the Federal Government had anything to do with this." So said Senator Barry Goldwater, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, after a congressional probe last week into the deaths of two U.S. citizens in a helicopter crash in Nicaragua. The issue was whether the Administration was secretly encouraging private volunteers to join the contra rebels who are battling Nicaragua's Marxist-led government. The U.S. cut off covert assistance to the antigovernment forces last...
...continues this Manichaean probe. More important, it gives Martin his best movie chance yet to spotlight his bravura brand of physical comedy. Watch Roger/Edwina attempt to walk down the street, or go to the bathroom, or make love; each move is a sublime display of schizophrenic coordination. Watch right-side Edwina take control in a courtroom, as left-side Roger falls asleep and the ever-so-feminine Edwina moves "their" body in a grotesquely macho strut. The actor's challenge is impossibly complicated−Steve Martin playing Lily Tomlin playing Roger Cobb−and beautifully realized. The rest...