Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roemer is not exactly behind-the-ears clean. His father was a high-ranking official in the Edwards administration in the 1970s and went the way of many of his colleagues. He went to prison. Although during this campaign Edwards tried to entangle Roemer in the web of corruption that is Louisiana politics, he apparently did not succeed...
...would be Israel's official day of rest. Ever since then, Israelis have been quarreling over the practical implications of the status quo. With the same single-minded tenacity that infuses their Talmudic studies, the religious militants are seeking to transform the agreement's loose principles into a legal web of pro-Orthodox statutes...
Democracy demands accountability, both in the policies of its government and from those who wish to make those policies. Sometimes it extracts that accountability unwillingly, uncomfortably, untidily. As the Gary Hart campaign consumed itself with dizzying swiftness and Richard Secord detailed his intricate web, the U.S. received a painful accounting of leaders. All week there was a sense of the surface of things being stripped away, the underside of public life being exposed to view...
...this snarled web of deception unwinds throughout the course of the movie, lots of exciting stuff happens. Buildings blow up--usually in slow motion. Guys punch each other out, with blows that make that great ping-pong-paddle-on-naugahyde noise. Lots of low-life Texans, criminals, Mexicans and innocent bystanders get shot. Half the time characters fire upon people they've already killed just to make sure the corpses don't spring to life in Day Of The Dead-fashion. And gradually, the audience gets the point of this film and begins to laugh out loud...
Wedtech' s widening web of corruption is an urban morality tale. -- The Government tries to block an outing by John Hinckley...