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Word: enmeshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, delegates adopted a resolution saying de Klerk's proposals were "designed to enmesh our organizations and people in schemes to maintain the status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apartheid Foes Adopt Militant Strategy | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Neither is the plot in which writer Wesley Strick and director Joseph Ruben (himself something of a cult figure for The Stepfather two years ago) enmesh him. Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond The Fringe | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...velocity that brought Watergate to mind, a backpedaling White House seemed guilty, at the very least, of high incompetence. At the center of the storm was a little-known National Security Council staff member, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, whose mysterious doings, and the questions they raised, threatened to enmesh many higher officials in a growing web of intrigue and deceit. At stake was nothing less than the viability of President Reagan's final two years in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...their Crimson letter (April 28), the Black Law Students Association and Muhammad Kenyatta enmesh themselves in contradictory statements. Thus they reject the charge I and Professor Orlando Patterson made (April 25), that they used the PLO representative's appearance here on April 20th to thumb their nose at those precious intellectual norms of fairness and free speech, and then proceed unwittingly to reveal that they in fact have very little respect for these norms. I have several reactions to their letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLSA | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain and councilor splendidly maege. When he cries out in solioquy that he will "enmesh" the Moor, Plummer squceezes himself into the most virile villain ever to singe a stage, a mad master of improvisation, and he rides this evergy,thrillingly, untill his objective is accomplished...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: 'The Pity of It,' Iago | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

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