Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep the FBI from thoroughly investigating one of its aspects. The circles of involvement spread from agency to agency, official to official. The Securities and Exchange Commission was afflicted last week when G. Bradford Cook, 36, its chair man for just 2½ months, resigned be cause of the "web of circumstance" that involved him in the Vesco case (see BUSINESS). A federal grand jury in New York, which had indicted Robert Vesco, John Mitchell and Maurice Stans, said Cook deleted from an SEC complaint against Financier Vesco all references to the $250,000 that Vesco donated to the campaign...
...textured web of the Watergate controversy grew more tangled this week amid presidential confessions and dramatic congressional hearings...
...being naive. Does it belong in a yearbook? Yes, for the same reason that the football team, Glee Club, and pre-meds do. Is it in poor taste? No, I don't think so. To have written about Dunster House the way Bill Beckett suggests, probing the "intricate web of strong relationships among men and women," examining their "intellectual dependencies" and loving -- that, to me, would be in poor taste. Kenneth Meister Managing Editor...
...most important memories for a lot of seniors in Dunster House, for example, is the development of an intricate web of strong relationships among men and women under one roof. During the last three years, they formed and broke off and then reformed intellectual dependencies, became boy-and-girl-friends and then became lovers, moved in with each other, and then drew apart in anger or disappointment or boredom--only to find another person to love or trust in spite of the avid comments of spectators. Dunster wasn't the only House to evolve a hopeful, tangled and sometimes tormented...
...theme is Hitchcockian: a demonstration of the way private sexual obsession has a way of spilling over into public, with murderous consequences (Vertigo). There are innocent bystanders drawn dangerously into a closely woven criminal web (The Man Who Knew Too Much). Even the murder that is the film's central incident-a perhaps too ghastly knifing-reminds us of the famous shower-bath murder in Psycho, as does a splendid, spooky score by that film's masterful composer, Bernard Herrmann. More important than these specific references to glories past, however, is the Hitchcockian discipline De Palma brings...