Athletes arriving for trial events have reported large numbers of heavily armed riot police officers, frequent checkpoints and repeated requests to show credentials not only to gain access to athletic venues but also to exit or enter their living quarters.
A more straightforward yet quirky documentary is Emily Jacir's "Crossing Surda (A Record of Going to and From Work)"; it gives a low-tech, knee-level, careering account, using a hidden camera, of her repeated crossings of an Israeli checkpoint, and conveys a mordant, depressing view of an already desolate limbo.
A major phenotype of spindle checkpoint mutants is repeated budding without mitotic arrest in the presence of the microtubule-depolymerizing drug nocodazole.
Riders race to one end, then turn around to head for the other checkpoint, repeating the process until all laps are complete.
Not being the driver, I was released from the checkpoint as the policemen repeated horrid tales of Friday nights spent in the cells at El Torito, and of potential cellmates, from sexual deviants to thugs.
Various checkpoints of the intricate plot are repeated almost in toto, lest the reader carefreely lose track and, like a scholar in springtime, gaze out the window at the birds and trees of the non-espionage world.
The checkpoint is operated by Worldwide Flight Services, which didn't return repeated calls for comment yesterday.
As a public spectacle, this repeated half-day occurrence is concentrated in the space of the checkpoint.
The government has spent the last several years cutting the size of the watch list, after repeated criticism that too many people were being questioned at border crossings or checkpoints.
Local and federal law enforcement officials repeated yesterday that there had been no credible threats against targets in the city, and that the searches being conducted at checkpoints across the region had not uncovered any plots by saboteurs.
