Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles medical examiner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, presided over a six-hour autopsy attended not only by members of his own staff but also by three Government doctors summoned from Washington?again a lesson from Dallas. Sirhan was indicted for murder by a grand jury. Meanwhile, once again, the nation watched the grim logistics of carrying the coffin of a Kennedy home in a presidential Boeing 707. This time the craft carried three widows: Ethel, Jackie and Coretta King...
...while, there was talk of entering the lightweights in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, normally reserved for heavyweight oarsmen. This plan assumed most heavyweight competition would be training for the Mexico City Game and would therefore skip the Henley Regatta...
...finally decided that to enter the Grand Challenge Cup would be a little bit too cheeky. So it will be the Thames...
Death in this movie has a definite Grand Guignol quality. People don't just fall down and lie there with a stain on the uniform and maybe a twitch or two. They writhe and roll, gurgling and spouting the red stuff in enough quantities to make even a paratrooper throw up-which John does with emetic realism. There is also a double helping of portentous stream of consciousness on the sound track, plus some heavy-handed message mongering that is both otiose and silly. "Just you and me," observes one of the characters, lying near death in an inferno...
John Kennedy promised to "get this country moving again"; yet he did not remotely reach his legislative goals in Congress. Lyndon Johnson salvaged much of Kennedy's program; yet he sacrificed his grand consensus in the unpopular Viet Nam war. What defeats great presidential expectations...