Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lightly fried beer-battered shrimp, the succulent fish swam on top of a vaguely tangy mustard sauce. The plate was livened by spicy sauteed collard greens--or perhaps it was the more raffine kale--and mashed potatoes. The overstuffed pork chop was way too sophisticated to hearken back to grand-ma's recipe. It came stuffed with apple and andouille sausage which cohered around moistened breadcrumbs. Black plum ketchup provided a foil for the smoky, spicy meat. The same potato and collard/kale accompaniments leant themselves more favorably to the pork chop than to the tuna. Both entrees, though hearty...
...Monica Lewinsky, what possessed the editors at Boston Magazine to call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions of coherence. But if coherence is such a grand objective to pursue, why does it take so much damn work...
...look at the amount of money we spent for these great, grand, beautiful buildings," the salaries for directors pale in comparison he said...
...small things in life often matter most, for they lack the frivolous and the superfluous that can obscure the essential. So it is with modern liberalism. To understand its modus operandi, we need to look at nothing so grand as FDR's New Deal or LBJ's Great Society. We need only look at our telephone bills...
Vegas has several thrill rides. There's the roller-coaster at the top of Stratosphere, the human slingshot at the MGM Grand Hotel, the skydiving just outside of town and the small plane trips into the Grand Canyon. Just outside town are the only legalized brothels in the nation, which count as a thrill ride of sorts...