Word: grander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait for Porky's 2, the requisite Nude Dancing at a Wild Party scene. This devious comic contraption is set in motion by a husband (Bartel) and wife (Mary Woronov) so decent and affectionate that they could star in their own sitcom. They have dreams no grander than to open a gourmet restaurant called Chez Bland-and the willingness to kill a gaggle of Los Angeles swingers in order to finance their scheme...
...fiction: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley was the most famous of Pound's poetic creations, a British reactionary born in a savage half-century, "out of date with his time." Findley's Mauberley rushes to catch up with his century. Cowering in a crumbling Alpine hotel that has seen grander times and better people, he writes a graffiti testament in rooms once occupied by the likes of Isadora Duncan and Somerset Maugham. He has barely finished when someone stabs him. The body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps. Captain Freyberg, a fanatical Nazi...
Reagan's style is not much grander than that of most recent Chief Executives, and some of the elephantiasis is not his doing. The press corps traveling with the President has about doubled in size in the past 20 years. Security has been beefed up under Reagan: the men with metal detectors are new, and the Reagan White House ordered armored cars, which the Carter Administration declined to buy. Some White House aides believe security has become excessive, but after the attempt on Reagan's life, no one is about to propose a cutback. Aides see little room...
...CHANCE," Fred Astaire told Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee, is the tool's word for fate. "This cliche, usually restricted to tales of star crossed romances, sometimes merits grander application. Every once in a while, events in two completely different lives take on an uncanny similarity, parallels that could only transcend coincidence...
Americans need to believe that the wealthy are loaded but human. The rich enjoy the same pleasures, but theirs are flavored with caviar. They back the same causes, but on a grander scale. Jock Whitney escaped from Nazi captors and "fought for freedom. "His paper, the now defunct New York Tribune, endorsed Lyndon Johnson for President. Demigods of glitter, the jet set lands now and then to mingle and be ogled...