Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 160 complaints filed against licensed doctors with the state licensing board were serious enough to warrant an investigation. But because the board is so hamstrung by insufficient funding it failed to investigate thoroughly all the cases that came to its attention. To make matters worse, excessive regulations effectively forbid the board from fully suspending physicians while they are under investigation; many who should be painting houses continue treating patients...
...muting to the surface of events. That The Curse of an Aching Heart, William Alfred's new Broadway play, is so uncritically nostalgic--not even his characters' pain seems to dampen the affection of the playwright summoning up Irish Brooklyn and the 1930s--should not be enough to warrant the unfavorable critical reaction the play has drawn. Sure, the effect on audiences is anything but the slick, lively finish that spells success for so many current musicals; nor does Alfred go in for the angst-packed, Freud-packed soul-searching that makes "serious" drama like Equus or Children...
Most frustrating of all is the absence, in the scenes shown, of any elements that would seem to warrant such loving attention. We can see too clearly that the social encounters of Fran's single life are empty and boring: the chitchat, as the incredible trolley slides across the stage, is just that. We are convinced of the rightness of Alfred's choice of farce as a device when Fran's unacceptable, unsympathetic beaux parade through her living room and her crazy German neighbors scream from upstairs; these scenes and characters compose the essentials of farce, so much so that...
This splitting of society has become so pervasive and perverse that some people are angry that they were not detained by the police. One famous actor who thinks that his politics are radical enough to warrant his confinement in an internment center goes out every night after the 11 p.m. curfew in the hope of being arrested. Thus far he has not been picked up, a fact that adds to his anger...
...tragedy clearly shows another Turk at Agca's elbow. Turkish authorities have identified the man as Omar Ay, a member of the neofascist National Action Party (N.A.P.), the group that aided Agca to escape from a Turkish jail and start on his trip to Rome. A warrant for Ay's arrest is outstanding in Ankara...