Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these things could be forgiven, as they have in the past, were it not for Noriega's wandering eyes. In fact, the United States government had an inkling for quite some time that Noriega was more than your average sweet dictator-next-door as far back as 1972, when U.S. intelligence received reports that Noriega was involved in heroin tracking into the United States. In 1980 the Justice Department had enough evidence that Noriega was involved in illegal arms deals to issue an indictment on conspiracy charges, but refrained from doing so. Later some of these arms turned...
...church officials. Last Sunday police surrounded East Berlin's Sophienkirche, one of the city's largest churches, subjecting worshipers to intimidating identity checks. The new crackdown follows a drive in January in which some dissidents were "exiled" to West Germany as punishment. Officials have evidently decided that the sweet prospect of such punishment merely encouraged the estimated 50,000 would-be emigrants, most of them not overtly political, to become more vocal in their efforts to leave the country...
...Hollywood's visual vocabulary. The performances are daring and assured, especially Lansbury's holy terror of Momism and Harvey's snide, pathetic pawn, brainwashed by both KGB AND CIA. And the movie's theory of endemic political corruption, which read as seditious in 1962, now feels like the sweet breath of reason. Few movies attempt to anatomize a whole sick society, to dissect the mortal betrayals of country, friend, lover and family; fewer films achieve this goal with such energy and wit. Voters will make their own choices this year, but for moviegoers the election is over. This Candidate delivers...
...Bright: Bright Center, home of the Harvard hockey team. It's a place where Harvard seldom loses Especially in the NCAA Tournament, where it has posted a 5-0-1 record in the 1980's. Bright, sweet Bright...
Director Adam Fratto and Musical Director Alan Gilbert stick to a sweet and sentimental favorite in Otto Nicolai's Wives, adapted from Shakespeare's play of the same name. Shakespeare's convoluted but charming plot guarantees a laugh at least every seven minutes (five minutes if you laugh in between the ridiculously long set changes...