Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University police said yesterday they know who has been stealing laundry and women's underwear from the Matthews laundry room, but are waiting to catch the suspect in action so they can arrest him for more than trespassing...
...definitely know who it is--it's not a student but a street person," said a Harvard policeman, who asked not to be identified. The suspect is a 25-year-old white male with brown hair and a beard, he added...
...took a meeting with the cast of Teahouse, an epic film currently under production. "Let's not waste any time," said Douglas to Wang Yang, head of the Peking Film Studio. "We have everything we need to make a movie together." The Communist government sees that films with suspect political sentiments or open displays of physical affection wind up on the cutting-room floor. Even so, the Chinese turn out at their local Bijous in the kind of mega-numbers a Hollywood executive would trade his Jacuzzi for. Last year Chinese film attendance was close to 74 million people...
When particular press misjudges a major turn of events, right-wingers in particular are apt to suspect a liberal bias. That charge infuriates press professionals who think they know how to put aside whatever political opinions they have when going after a story. The reason the press misjudged some events in Poland, Egypt and Nicaragua is more complicated. It was less a case of bias than of mindset, to apply a clumsy but useful vogue word...
...Viet Nam. For a long time, many of the world's young fell into a dreamy, vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much of a generation from the ambition to be excellent...