Word: grand
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...tape when his lawyer, Bob Bennett, insisted to the judge that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit stating that she and the President had never had sex. And Schippers referred to the famous Clintonian phrase "it depends on what the meaning of is is" from the August session with the grand jury. "That single declaration," Schippers said, "reveals more about the character of the President than perhaps anything else in the record... Can you imagine dealing with such a person on any important matter...
...CLINTON'S GRAND JURY TESTIMONY An uncut four-hour videotape, taken by a motionless camera trained on one man talking. Disembodied background voices; absurdist dialogue about the word is--nothing so avant-garde has ever been broadcast before. Free of punditry, it was the highlight of Monica...
...served as a sign of peace, but Americans were anything but peaceful in forcing hundreds of tribes from their homelands. It is therefore somewhat ridiculous to honor Sacajawea for what Rheta Johnson called "an enormous and personal contribution to this country." Her contribution, willing or not, was to a grand injustice. And if we as a nation didn't care about the plight of the American Indians then, we don't care much today, either...
...village, custom requires that we hold a krutu, a sort of formal palaver, with the granman--grand man, the paramount chief--and his council, before we wander about. We gather in his hut with the village leaders. He is a compact man, with a slightly sad expression--sort of a solemn Redd Foxx--and a tuft of white beard clinging to his chin. During the krutu, one never addresses him directly, nor does he speak directly to others. All questions and responses go through the bassias, high-ranking assistants who serve as intermediaries, a custom that prolongs the meetings...
...Prince of Egypt is a grand experiment, a crusade to expand the frustratingly narrow boundaries of feature animation. The film and its laborious making are, finally, a bit like the Moses story: each is an illuminating adventure that stops just short of its own Promised Land...