Word: probing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political corruption spotlight has found Middlesex County in its path. He was not up for election during the Middlesex County "reform slate" of 1972, and stayed remarkably in the background of the late-summer hoopla surrounding fellow commissioner Mike McLaughlin and his alleged job-selling tactics. The job-selling probe, conducted in primary-timed fashion by District Attorney Droney's office, eventually cost McLaughlin a chance of winning the party nomination for Congress in the Sixth District...
...dollars, as indicated by a deposition he had given to Remigia's lawyers, and then failed to report the loans to the secretary of the Senate, as required by law. Earlier this month, Committee Counsel Richard Wertheimer resigned, angrily complaining that Brooke's "representatives" had tried to cripple the probe by altering some records and not handing over others that were demanded by the committee...
After this solid lead-in of shorts, the Allen film is disappointing. Throughout the film producer/-director Allen Mantell consistently fails to probe hard enough, whether out of respect for Allen's privacy or out of deference to a comedian/social observer of Allen's stature. While Mantell does cover some of the relevant bases, he ignores key leads to the problem at hand. For instance, in the half-hour we hear nothing of Allen's fifteen years of psychoanalysis, although that process has probably provided Allen with a larger portion of his humor than any other single factor. Allen does...
Marquez is not a true philosopher; his stories do not probe deep truths and profound metaphysical concerns. Instead, he is a cataloguer of everyday feelings and attitudes. He realizes, however, that everyday feelings are more complicated than they may seem and are best dealt with by pulling one step away from the commonplace. He has said that the ideal novel should "perturb not only because of its political and social content, but also because of its power of penetrating reality, and better yet, because of its capacity to turn reality upside down so we can see the other side...
Vorenberg, a former master of Dunster House, served as an associate special prosecuter in the Watergate probe from 1973 to 1975 and later served as an adviser to the state Senate Ethics Committee...