Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peephole into the Oval Office, who is one of three White House staff members privy to the President's phone logs, and who has emerged as the silent and sturdy pivot for three big players: Clinton, Vernon Jordan and Lewinsky. Currie, whose stricken face as she left the grand jury became a national freeze-frame a month ago, is reportedly calmer now, not terrified of a return engagement but not exactly looking forward to it. She spent Saturday night at the Kennedy Center seeing Don Giovanni, Mozart's opera about a doomed Spanish Lothario whose loyal servant kept a long...
...Though his aides say he will not be sidetracked, Clinton calls his lawyers constantly, the intense voice unmistakable. What surprises his lawyers at the other end of the line is the way Clinton jumps into the conversation as if in midsentence: explaining the latest piece to emerge from the grand jury or the deposition, putting it in context, dissecting its implication. Last Thursday the President was hyperventilating about a minor Associated Press story that suggested a Kenneth Starr Whitewater witness might be financially connected to the archconservative Pittsburgh philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife. "The President is completely and totally obsessed with...
...third symphony in the summer of 1895 while he was on holiday from the Hamburg Opera. He composed this symphony of seven movements in a cabin near a lake at the edge of a field. In the one room cabin there was only enough space for a baby grand a desk, chairs and a stove for heat. This symphony reflects his change of setting; it doesn't follow the style of traditional symphonies as Mahler put things together as he chose without any attention to traditional movement form. After letting his first two symphonies stand without the help of words...
...that's sort of the definition of sequel); he just starts over again. Sheridan's framed, Sheridan escapes, Sheridan fights back. Well, at least it's more believable that track star Snipes can elude the capture of trained professionals who always seem to find a contact lens left in Grand Central but can never seem to catch him even though all he has at his disposal are duct tape and a twinkie. Oh, and a Macintosh. He's just a bit faster than the statue of Harrison Ford that has been appearing in movies billing old Hans these days, Amazing...
...four men now face an Article 32 hearing -- the equivalent of a civilian grand jury -- which will decide on a court-martial. Thompson believes that the Marines will be tougher on their fliers than the Air Force was on the F-15 pilots who accidentally shot down two Blackhawk helicopters in 1994. ?The Marines have a reputation for accountability,? says Thompson, ?and everyone in uniform will be watching very closely...