Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyway, Salvador begins with buffoonery, as a down-and-out photojournalist (James Woods) journeys to EI Salvador with his slob friend (Jim Belushi) in search when this dynamic duo are hassled by border guards and confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would...
DOWN THE STEPS WENT I, INTO the subterranean depths, torch thrust out ahead for light, seeking the Office of Career Services conference room. Okay, I didn't actually thrust out a torch, but it was pretty dark down there. And frightening. The agonizing search for summer employment was upon...
...year-old runaway living in a reform school in 1961 when she gave birth out of wedlock to a son she named Dennis. As a ward of the state, Sherwood was forced to give up her child for adoption. Nineteen years later, she set out to find him. The search led her to Ramsey County, where the welfare department informed her that Dennis had died in 1965 of peritonitis. But adoptions are confidential in Minnesota, and other agencies refused to give out further information...
Sherwood, now 42, gave up her search until last September, when, she says, a "friend convinced me I didn't have to be afraid of the system, that I had a moral right to know." Poring over old newspapers with one of her other four children, she found articles that made her suspicious about her son's death. She took her case to police in the town of White Bear Lake, a suburb of St. Paul. After a medical examiner and other experts scrutinized Dennis' autopsy report, they determined that the boy had been beaten to death. Late last month...
...OBSESSION with superficial beauty is as unfair to the man as it is to the woman he judges. Because of his search for a perfect female body, Billy rarely asks women out anymore. He often spends Saturday nights sitting in his boxer shorts, drinking a six-pack of Meisterbrau, and watching the Junk Yard Dog battle Mr. Wonderful in the fake wrestling match of the week...