Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amount of money Senators and Representatives can spend on personal office staffs, with the result that more bright and able aides have been hired. In 1972 there were 2,426 Senate aides and 913 Senate committee staffers; also 5,280 House aides and 783 House committee staffers-a grand total of 9,402. By 1976, according to Susan Hammond and Harrison Fox Jr., authors of a new book on congressional staffs, that total had jumped to 13,272. It is still growing...
...What a grand spectacle. Newspaper headlines and network specials, editors hammering their typewriters to new heights of deadline eloquence: everything being gloriously overdone - at least a little. Friends from far and near in their dark suits standing around telling stories - solemnly at first - about their days and journeys with Hubert, beginning to chuckle and then to laugh out loud, and then reaching for an other bourbon to ease the long, low ache that comes from knowing a great man is gone. Had Hubert, like Tom Sawyer, been able to sneak under the back pews at his own services and witness...
...clear, now, that much thinking and discussion must precede a decision on the CRR. For us, the CRR is a Supreme Court, doling out justice or injustice on a grand scale. In peace, it is hard for us to see this. But when war comes, we will be cursed if we make the wrong decision today...
...seas in ships. By 1960, though, more people were crossing the Atlantic by air than by water, and the big luxury liners had begun a long slide into nostalgic memory; hardly any are left on the Atlantic run. Yet down in the Caribbean, the glamour of the swaying grand saloon lived on: cruise ships, populated primarily by the gray and affluent set, visited the islands in style. And today the cruise business is flourishing as never before, the lure of low-priced charter flights to everywhere notwithstanding. Bookings in North America, which account for more than 80% of the world...
...weird but persistent paradox: some brilliant movies are sheer torture to sit through. Such is the case with Padre Padrone, the Italian television film that last spring became the first movie ever to win both the grand prize and the international critics' prize at the Cannes Festival. Padre Padrone has undeniable merits; it tells a fascinating true-life story in an innovative style. Yet somehow it never makes us care passionately about its people or its subject. Though there is reason to believe that this film will influence other films, many moviegoers may forget Padre Padrone as soon...