Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ismailia, the Egyptians confiscated the prisoners' cameras and film and subjected them to a thorough grilling. Somewhat to his surprise, Stone was asked detailed questions about the table of organization of the hard-sell U.S. organization as well as on U.J.A. techniques for fund raising and the uses to which its gifts are put. Stone told as much as he knew, but that was not enough. At one point, Stone said later, his Egyptian interrogator pulled a dossier on the U.J.A. but of a desk drawer and demanded petulantly: "O.K. Let's go through this again...
...enriched themselves at the people's expense, maintained fat foreign bank accounts and took land illegally from the peasants." Thousands of students paraded noisily proclaiming support of the army and demanding freedom of the press and formation of political parties. As for the new Prime Minister, he promised "thorough economic and social change"-an indication that he intends to heed the army's yearning for Ethiopia to escape from the dark ages...
...performance of such thorough excitement that the rest of the movie cannot compete with it. Except for a fine, low-key characterization by Peter Masterson as a dutiful station-house cop, Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Play It As It Lays) has cast the movie rather haphazardly, and his heavy direction encourages a sort of collective actors' hysteria. The writing is without much enterprise; in deed, why make another movie about a police chief at all? It would have been far more interesting to use the same material for a film about Wills - that is, both...
There is only one way to tell: by a thorough examination of the phenomena by those who do not express an a priori belief. By those for whom probability is not a mystique but a comprehensible code. By those who have nothing to lose but their skepticism. Until such examiners are allowed to play the psychic game, it is unlikely that the paranormal will escape the ambiguous utterance against it in Leviticus: "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them ..." And that most wondrous and mysterious of entities, the human mind...
...telephone calls had been denied by Nixon even though "there was no indication that any requested recording is either irrelevant to our inquiries or subject to some particularized (presidential) privilege." While grand juries can proceed without these tapes, Jaworski wrote, "the material is important to a complete and thorough investigation and may contain evidence necessary for any future trials." Jaworski reported that he had promised Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, that these unfulfilled requests completed his list of documents wanted in his pretrial investigation, but he was nevertheless rebuffed by the White House...