Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...18th century, such drastic punishment was rarely actually used. Says he: "The practice of arrest served rather as a mechanism of control. So I tried to turn the problem around, saying to myself, 'Why was the state so interested in sexuality?' " Foucault's historical researches unearth extraordinary documents that he publishes separately as supporting evidence. Thus his inquiries into crime led to the discovery of a confession that he quoted as its own title: I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother . . . Foucault's studies of sexuality led similarly to Herculine Barbin...
...government's probe of Sadat's assassination continued to unearth new details about Egypt's shadowy underground terrorist network. Nearly a month before the murder, agents had uncovered a plot to kill Sadat in the Nile delta town of Mansura. Sadat had actually been shown video and sound recordings of armed members of Islamic extremist groups who were plotting his assassination, but gave the matter little thought. Mubarak himself added more details about the conspiracy against Sadat. The objective of the killers, he said, was to "physically liquidate" all of Egypt's top military, religious...
...verify the findings; sometimes, he concedes, teams of monitors reported different scores for the same show. Who are the monitors? Wildmon refuses to give out any names, saying they were promised anonymity. Efforts by networks and other news organizations-including nationwide inquiries by TIME correspondents-have failed to unearth anyone who contributed to the survey...
...high school classmates had displayed transparent pretensions to "the life," but they never got much closer than the clothing, or maybe a convincing adulteration of the language. When we arrived here we determined independently, and after a while in cooperation, to get to the bottom of this business, to unearth the secrets of this preppy stuff...
...ADAPTED SCREENPLAY especially triumphs in its portrayal of the relationship between Eva and her granddaughter Jeannie. Unlike Jeannie's minor role in Olsen's novella. Joyce Eliason and Alex Lytie, authors of the screenplay, developed the granddaughter's character fully, allowing her to unearth Eva's "other" personality: that of a casual, free-spirited, and highly intellectual woman. The authors successfully show the mutual infatuation of relationships that span generations...