Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...quickly the Olympic hopefuls have disappeared from the public eye, relegated to the small type on scoreboard pages across the country. Relative merits of the boycott aside, who are we trying to punish this summer, the supreme athletes or the supreme Soviet? The recent award bestowed upon the U.S. Olympic hockey team by the American Institute for Public Service (Secretary of State emeritus Cyrus Vance also got one) was richly-deserved; the enormity of the upset and its subsequent effect on national spirit cannot be exaggerated. Who can forget captain Mike Eruzione saying, "Good luck to you, Mr. President...
...citizens who took part in a Tehran conference on alleged U.S. intervention in Iran. Muskie said that Carter's ban sprang from concern "about the safety of Americans traveling in a country where there is anti-American hostility." Added Muskie: "The purpose of the policy is not to punish people who violate it, but to prevent people from going." Snapped Carter when asked about Muskie's views: "I don't think Ed Muskie has any legal responsibility for determining whom to prosecute or not to prosecute...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
Kubrick crafts his camera angles carefully, providing framing and backgrounds that serve as leitmotifs for each character. He maintains a persistent symmetry, as if the Torrances were caught in a photographic vise. And he is witty: when Jack makes up his mind to punish Danny, the cartons in the pantry behind him read "Pimento Pieces" and "Peach Slices...
...jurisdictional problems. Last month the attorney general for the state of California sued, among others, the mayor of Los Angeles, the entire city council, the chief of police and the board of trustees of the Los Angeles Unified School District, demanding that authorities put together some coordinated program to punish the criminals and cut down on violence and theft...