Word: conrade
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...also harbored literary illusions of the mighty Thames a la Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad's words echoed in my head, "What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth!" In my mind I tacked widely against the great river's deep currents and slipped fleetly over the finish line in a victory over the former imperial power. My dream's finale had me starring in a miniature version of the Boston Tea Party...
...ORDINARY PEOPLE The theme of Robert Redford's directorial debut is that boating rips families apart. After Conrad (Timothy Hutton) fails to save his big brother in a storm on Lake Michigan, he attempts suicide. After he returns home from the mental institution, his coldly chipper mom (Mary Tyler Moore) is speaking for herself when she complains, "I don't think people want to be with him." Conrad blames himself for his brother's death, even though the real murderers are the droves of psychopathic molecules composed of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. He does quit the swim team...
...originates from a confrontational April grilling of Gore by Justice investigators over familiar ground - the Buddhist temple, the coffees, the fund-raising calls, the iced-tea defense. Gore, sources said, got defensive and angry, and prosecutors (including the whistleblower this time, Justice's campaign finance division head Robert Conrad) came away more suspicious than ever. They told Reno so. Someone at Justice (apparently not Conrad) decided to leak it to Republicans on the Hill, and Arlen Specter saw fit to tell the world...
...really unpredictable whether Reno will relent this time. There's no new evidence, no smoking gun - this is just a building of the pressure she's been under since 1996, with Conrad's voice added to all the others. On the one hand, she's facing a huge amount of criticism from Republicans and some others to finally appoint an outside counsel...
...Give Al Gore credit for a fast, non-shifty response - in classic Friday-at-4 fashion - to the sight of those palm-greasing Buddhist monks rearing their shaven heads. He released the full transcript of his April 18 grilling by Justice prosecutor James Conrad, who was sufficiently put off by a short-fused Gore's answers to recommend to Janet Reno that she launch an independent investigation...