Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the ambitious Carter program remains of course unfinished or, in some cases, set aside as politically and economically unfeasible. His grand schemes for welfare reform, for instance, were shunted aside in Congress and are probably dead. His promised national health care program has been scaled down because of its potentially huge costs...
...nurse my cousin who was having a baby," says the fiftyish waitress who serves me my first cup of coffee on Main Street. "Now I can't even find the house I came to. Plains has changed that much -and all just lately. I think it's grand...
...carry over into others. When Jeanie Kasindorf, a writer for New West magazine, started investigating Columbia Pictures Chief David Begelman, she decided to query Yale, his alma mater, to follow up rumors of bad checks. Problem: Begelman had never attended Yale. Although Begelman was indicted for forgery and grand theft, the Hollywood types were more outraged that he had listed Yale in Who's Who. Apparently they figured that everybody steals money. Says Kasindorf: "It was the fact that he lied about Yale that drove them crazy...
They whirl around the discotheques, the baths, and the men's room at Grand Central Station, with their clear plastic belts and work boots and Technicolor T-shirts, till Sutherland overdoses and Malone disappears into Long Island Sound. Passion is a cancer; eros and thanatos, interwoven...
...have discovered that three cars will just fit on a two-lane road, so they often pass even when another car is coming, knowing that they can probably still squeeze by. White-haired French grandmothers drive like American teenagers, and as for the French teenagers--their driving makes the Grand Prix look like a drivers' safety course...