Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin to suspect that there is in us a voyeuristic craving, an instinct which tempts us to spectate rather than to read. "In other words, I never get away from myself." A twinge of uneasiness prompts us to ask, what are we reading here? This writing defies understanding, subverts the process of making meaning through any rubric...
...part that Barthes accedes to this self demystification, a sublimated egotism. It grates on the nerves: "little by little I recognize in myself a growing desire for readability...I want the texts I write to be readable, too...." But the air of gratuitousness embellished with sincerity leads us to suspect that we are imprisoned in a confessional--on the wrong side of the screen--listening with horror and fascination to the "powerful and pathetic stream" of Barthes' language...
Glossy magazines have their appeal, and were this movie not so abominably bad, audiences would have been content to watch two beautiful people doing the F-thing for two hours. Yet, I suspect 9 1/2 Weeks will die on the vine, for audiences are willing to take emotional alienation only so far, and this type of fantasy is more like a nightmare...
...Polls. Although national hockey polls are more than a little suspect, the Crimson has been a darling of the voters, ranking in the top 10--and often the top five--for much of the season. Clarkson has never been highly ranked. In addition, some of the same people who contribute to these somewhat dubious polls also select the tournament teams and are inclined to make themselves look good...
...Nashville shopping mall was an odd place for the skein of corruption scandals that have ensnarled New York City and Chicago to begin unraveling. But that was where police picked up Michael Burnett, a corpulent ex-con, swindler and murder suspect who was to provide important evidence in corruption investigations in both cities. Burnett, police said later, had stopped at the mall to make last-minute preparations for a burglary. Inside his van, officers found a submachine gun, ammunition and an automatic pistol...