Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the ban on nonresidents was struck down altogether when Wayne County Judge Marvin Stempien ruled that a random check of park users' identification violated constitutional guarantees against illegal search and seizure. Pending a possible appeal, Dearborn's parks will remain open to outsiders, and the N.A.A.C.P. has called off its ten-month-old boycott of local stores...
...with violating Article 190-1 of the criminal code, which deals with "slander of the Soviet state or social system" and can lead to up to three years in a labor camp. In the next room, two women in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) uniforms did a body search and looked through my bag. They took copies of the letters that were supposed to reach my children before Andrei's hun ger strike. Kolesnikov barely glanced at them, so it was clear that he was already familiar with them...
...saying, "Since I never at any time anywhere under any circumstances deliberately spread slanderous fabrications defaming the Soviet state or social system, or the state or social system of other countries, or private persons, I will not participate in the investigation and will not answer the question." The search and interrogation lasted two or three hours...
Halberstam is clearly in search of villains. His populistic assessment / becomes particularly scathing when it concerns the rise of the accounting prodigies who took over in Detroit during the '50s. He argues that a closed world of numbers and cost accounting pioneered by men like onetime Ford President Robert McNamara (previously flayed by Halberstam for his role as Defense Secretary during the Viet Nam War) overrode the hands-on thinking that had propelled the automakers to greatness. Partly as a result, obliviousness to the implications of the oil crisis reigned, and even minimal maintenance of Detroit's sometimes ramshackle assembly...
...borders, to capitalists who have plundered its natural resources, "often bequeathing decay rather than development." The series contains no on-camera interviews, just Mazrui's narration set against striking shots of African life and landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic: his blaming, for instance, virtually all African violence on weapons imported from the West and his naive romanticizing of Gaddafi...