Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone knows who ever sat back waiting for the worst, a dentist's chair is not the place where a patient feels at his most masterful. "Whatever you say, Doc," is a customary attitude. But it also can be an invitation to painful larceny, both petit and grand, or so says a dentist named Melvin Denholtz...
...head of programming, Silverman does not just schedule shows the way a train dispatcher schedules runs into Grand Central Station. Often?to the dismay of producers, directors and writers ?he becomes producer, director and writer. He reads the script of every new show, pilots of shows, and potential pilots of shows. "I never worked so hard in my life as when Freddie was working for me at CBS," says Bob Wood. "He'd give me scripts to take home at night, and then call a half-hour after I got home to ask how I liked them. He knows...
Then, two days later, in blunt defiance of previous warnings by Jimmy Carter against further Israeli colonization of occupied lands, Jerusalem announced that it would build still more settlements-a grand total of 35-in the occupied territories. Three are to be established immediately on the West Bank. The government's lame explanation for the decision: the new settlements were included in a plan approved by the previous regime...
Carter is not exactly a grand old English name. The first Carters were, of course, carters, medieval truck drivers. Yet despite the family's hoi-polloi origins and plain-folks posture, Jimmy Carter's family tree turns out to have some hoity-toity upper limbs. The President is related to, among others, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington, three other previous Presidents and the first American millionaire...
Despite his own colossal biography of James, Edel feels that the Master still has not been fully plumbed. "Even his acceptances or regrets to social events-and in later years, his telegrams-are written in the grand manner," Edel tells his class. He pauses, his hands momentarily stilled. "One could do 'The Collected Social Letters of Henry James,' " he muses. "Yes, or even The Collected Telegrams...