Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced that it had entered into an agreement with Citibank, the second largest banking organization in the U.S., to assist the bank's millionaire clients in acquiring artworks for investment. Though Sotheby's insists that the arrangement contains sufficient built-in checks and balances to dispel any suspicion of conflict of interest, many people in the art world are skeptical of any deal whereby an auction house may in effect end up supporting its own market. Says David Bathurst, Christie's New York president: "Using art as an investment scares the hell out of me. There...
...those really be mere college students who are holding 50 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran? The suspicion that they are instead seasoned militants is reinforced nightly when newscasts show armed men outside the embassy who look more like combat soldiers, an impression both accurate and misleading. The men in dark green fatigues are not students: they are members of the Pasdaran, the Islamic revolutionary guard. But there is general agreement among Iranians and Western diplomatic sources that the 200 or so young men and women who are always inside the embassy compound are indeed legitimate students...
WHERE HAVE ALL the heroes gone? Our era's cynicism and suspicion have seen more and more former idols rudely picked off their pedestals as they fall victim to literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis's drug addiction, and Hemingway's latent homosexuality. To err may be human, but to forgive seems well beyond today's all-consuming passion to wallow in the filth of others--especially when that filth is a residue of the rich and renowned...
...Since the action of singling out Iranian students, comprising only 20 percent of the foreign student population in the U.S., for selective harassment by Immigration constitutes what is known as suspect classification" (the casting of blanket suspicion of wrongdoing on a group classified only by race, religion, or national origin...
CULTURAL developments abroad are not ignored. The 1988 Tirana (Albania) World's Fair, with no outsiders allowed to enter the country, "a less-than-celebratory spirit of secrecy and suspicion evidently hovered...